New CCTV footage shows Liam Payne’s final moments before his tragic death

Latest update:16 Nov 2024, 15:17 IST

Surveillance footage of Liam Payne’s last moments has surfaced online, showing the singer talking to a hotel employee who was later arrested for supplying drugs.

Argentinian police claimed Liam Payne’s drugs were delivered in a soap box. (Photo credit: Instagram)

It’s been a month since Liam Payne, a former member of One Direction, died after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. Since then, various theories and gruesome details of the police investigation have emerged. Recently, recordings from video surveillance cameras have appeared on the network, which show the last moments of Liam’s life. The video reportedly shows Liam talking to hotel employee Ezequiel David Pereira, who was later arrested for allegedly supplying drugs to the late British singer. The footage shows Pereira stacking chairs in the hotel basement with other staff as Liam arrives in the lift. They talk for a few seconds before Pereira exits through the next door.

TMZ recently obtained a video of Liam exiting an elevator in the basement of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. The footage shows him talking to and shaking hands with the employee accused of his death. Sources have confirmed that the person in the video is Pereira, the doorman who allegedly delivered the medicine to Liam in a soap box. According to sources, the video was recorded around 2:04 p.m., hours before Liam tragically fell from his hotel’s third-floor balcony.

Earlier reports from Argentine police said that Liam Payne’s medication was delivered to him in a box of Dove soap, and only hotel staff had access to provide the soap to guests. Insiders believe the box could have been used to secretly deliver drugs to the One Direction singer. An autopsy later confirmed that several substances were in Liam’s system at the time of his death, including cocaine, crack, ketamine, ecstasy, and a type of crystal meth called Cristal.

Argentine journalist Paula Varela, speaking to Canal 13, suggested that Liam’s death could have been avoided. She claimed that the singer passed out before falling from the hotel balcony. According to Mirror US, she told a local channel: “There’s footage that hasn’t been released to the media with the balcony scene where you see Liam pass out and unfortunately, because of where he is, fall off that balcony. If he had been by his bed, he would have fallen on his bed. It’s not that he jumped on purpose. These shots are in the official materials of the case.”

As part of the investigation, police arrested hotel employee Ezequiel David Pereira, an unnamed person who was with Liam during his stay in Buenos Aires, and another person identified as a drug supplier. A few weeks before his tragic death, Liam attended a concert by former One Direction bandmate Niall Horan in Argentina.