Liam Payne’s $60k Rolex missing after tragic death

Police investigating Liam Payne’s final hours are still hunting for a designer watch the star was wearing before he plunged to his death.

Liam Payne’s $60,000 Rolex watch is missing as Argentinian police continue to investigate the One Direction star’s tragic death.

Police suspect the watch, which Payne was wearing in the hours before he plunged to his death from his hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, was stolen, according to Argentinian Daily La Nacion.

When the star’s body was recovered by police, the 31-year-old was no longer wearing the costly watch.

Liam Payne was wearing a $60,000 Rolex in the hours leading up to his death. Picture: liampayne/Instagram

The pop star’s watch has gone missing amid fears it was stolen. Picture: liampayne/Instagram

Police sources told the paper: “We know, from images that were analysed, that Payne was wearing a Rolex on the day of his death.

“He was wearing it in one of his hands and he had it for at least two to three hours before he jumped into the void.

“We looked for it in the room at the CasaSur hotel where he was staying and we couldn’t find it.”

Liam Payne’s Rolex is missing after his tragic death, police say. Picture: AFP

A source said: “The watch was searched for at the homes of the people accused of the crimes of abandonment of a person and supply and facilitation of narcotics and at the homes of the two women who were with Payne in the room the afternoon of his death.”

The hotel where Liam Payne died. Picture: Supplied

It came after three people were arrested and charged in connection with the much-loved singer’s death.

Payne fell to his death from the third-floor hotel balcony in Argentina on October 16 while under the influence of drugs.

Argentinian authorities have been investigating the mysterious circumstances of the singer’s death, as his body arrived at London Heathrow last Thursday, UK time, ahead of his funeral in his native Wolverhampton this week.

Argentina’s public prosecutor released a statement last week to confirm that three people have been formally charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death, supply, and facilitation of narcotics.”

TMZ reports one suspect is described as a “friend” who was in Payne’s hotel room with him, but left him there at some point before he died.

The second suspect is a hotel housekeeper, who police believe likely delivered drugs to the singer in a soap box, TMZ reports.

The publication reports the third suspect is the alleged drug supplier, who prosecutors say delivered narcotics to Payne twice on October 14, two days before his death.

Prosecutors said they raided the hotel multiple times during which they searched the employees lockers and reviewed 800 hours of CCTV from the hotel CasaSur Palermo, where Payne was staying.

A toxicology report completed as part of the autopsy revealed traces of pink cocaine – a combination of methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA – in his system, as well as cocaine and benzodiazepine.

Police also found an improvised aluminium pipe used to smoke crack cocaine in his suite.

The English pop star died instantly, according to the post mortem, suffering multiple injuries as he fell almost 14m from the balcony onto the concrete footpath below.