Liam Payne seen in hotel surveillance footage hours before tragic death

Liam Payne is seen speaking to one man charged in relation to his death in CCTV footage taken at his hotel three hours before he died.

CCTV footage of Liam Payne has emerged showing him chatting to one of the three people charged in connection with his death.

In surveillance footage obtained by TMZ, the singer could be seen interacting with a bellboy at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires.

The staffer is believed to be Ezequiel David Pereyra, although police have not yet to officially confirm it’s Pereyra in the video.

The video captures Pereyra stacking chairs in the basement of the hotel with other staffers when the elevator door opens and Payne sticks his head out.

Liam Payne captured in hotel CCTV footage three hours before his death.

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The pair are then see exchanging some words before shaking hands. Payne again enters the elevator, while Pereyra heads out through a doorway.

Local police previously said that the One Direction star had his drugs delivered in a Dove soap box, adding that only hotel staffers had access to the hotel’s soap supply.

Payne appeared to be talking to ne man charged in relation to his death.

This interaction took place at 2:04pm local time, just three hours before Payne fell to his death from the third-floor hotel suite balcony.

TMZ suggests that Payne may have already known Pereyra from his previous trips to Argentina as they appeared friendly with each other.

The other two people charged in connection to the singer’s death include the singer’s friend Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nores, who allegedly abandoned him, and waiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, who is suspected of being Liam’s “dealer”.

Both men have since spoken out and denied any involvement in his death.

“I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened,” Nores told the Daily Mail.

Payne fell to his death from the third floor of his hotel suite balcony. Picture: ANGELA WEISS / AFP

As for Paiz, he told journalist Guillermo Panizza on Argentinian TV: “I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work. We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal. He came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost.”

“We took drugs together, but I never took drugs to him or accepted any money,” he added.

Investigators have recently ruled out suicide or third-party involvement as causes in Payne’s tragic death

That information combined with “other relevant data” about the amount of drugs he consumed leading up to his death, as noted in his toxicology report, allowed them to conclude Payne was not “fully conscious” or was in a state of “decrease or loss of consciousness” and therefore did not intentionally mean to fall.

Originally published as Liam Payne seen in hotel surveillance footage hours before tragic death