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