Overview
- Senior coroner Crispin Butler said Thursday there has been no new disclosure from Argentina via the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
- He adjourned the case to a further pre-inquest review on December 1 while he waits for full reports and eyewitness statements.
- Documents received before the hearing were translated, and he will share the relevant material with Payne’s family.
- Argentine authorities are still investigating the fall, after a court there dropped criminal negligence charges against three of five people in February 2025.
- A post-mortem found Payne died from multiple traumatic injuries and haemorrhage after a third-floor fall at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires in October 2024.