The remains of the former member of One Direction, Liam Paynewho died in October in Argentina, were transferred to United Kingdom on a flight that took off from Buenos Aires on this Wednesday afternoon and in which the musician’s father, Geoff Payne, was also traveling.
The flight departed this Wednesday for London at 1:58 p.m. local time and a user published a video on social networks showing Geoff Payne at the Ezeiza international airport, in Buenos Aires, minutes before boarding.
The local press reported that Payne’s body was transferred on Wednesday morning from the British Cemetery from Buenos Aires, where he was, and an employee of the funeral home in charge reported on Tuesday that he was being embalmed and would be repatriated in the next 24 or 48 hours.
On Tuesday, Geoff Payne revisited the memorial fans made in honor of his son outside the hotel where he died; an altar full of letters, photos and flowers.
The pop star passed away on October 16 at 31 years old due to “multiple traumas” and “internal and external hemorrhage”, after falling from the balcony of his third-floor room in a hotel in Buenos Aires.
Preliminary autopsy results indicated that he was alone at the time of the fall and was going through “some type of outbreak.” product of substance abuse“the prosecutor’s office then reported.
Payne was a member of One Direction, a hugely successful pop group whose fame began in 2010 thanks to the British television talent show “The X Factor.” The “boy-band” went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
