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Prosecutors Reveal Incriminating Evidence as Two Men Await Trial in Liam Payne Case

Prosecutors released drug messages, hotel CCTV footage, employee testimony, witness statements, surveillance records to support charges that could bring 15-year sentences

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Overview

  • CCTV images show Ezequiel Pereyra handing cocaine to Liam Payne outside the CasaSur Palermo Hotel about an hour before Payne’s fatal October 16 balcony fall
  • Testimony from five hotel employees details Pereyra running “errands” to deliver drugs and conducting multiple sales to the former One Direction singer
  • Messages recovered from Payne’s phone indicate waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz sent photos of narcotics and arranged two separate cocaine deliveries on the day of the fall
  • Both Paiz and Pereyra have remained in pretrial detention since January and each faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of supplying cocaine
  • No trial date has been set but proceedings are expected to begin imminently following the formal filing of the prosecution’s dossier