Horror moment Liam Payne tragically fell from balcony was 'captured on CCTV'

The horror moment Liam Payne fell from his third-floor Buenos Aires hotel balcony was captured on CCTV, an Argentinian broadcast journalist has claimed. Paula Varela said the footage showed the former One Direction singer had fallen after he “fainted” on the balcony, but claimed authorities had chosen not to share it with the public. Paula, 45, also claimed on a popular Argentinian TV show that a night worker at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel who had struck up a close relationship with Liam was the focus of an ongoing investigation which was trying to establish who supplied him with the drugs suspected of contributing to his death on October 16.

Paula said on Socios del Espectaculo, a show broadcast on Buenos Aires-based TV station Canal 13: “There is footage that is not being released to the media with the balcony scene where you see that Liam faints and tragically because of where he is, falls from that balcony. If he had been beside his bed he would have fallen on his bed. “It’s not that he jumped deliberately.

This footage is in the official case files.” She also said: “There’s a lad who’s being investigated, he was working nights at the hotel. He’s 20 and had struck up an excellent relationship with Liam.

He’s from Lomas de Zamora on the outskirts of Buenos Aires but we’re not going to say his name. “He disobeyed an order from the hotel management. What was the order he disobeyed? It was not to take anything into Liam’s room.

“Because of the good.