Liam Payne death update as arrested waiter admits | UK News

Waiter Braian Paiz says he shares his remand cell with another 15 people who have nicknamed him “killer” and left him in worry of his life. He claimed he has been burnt, crushed and threatened with electrocution in prison. The 25-year-old, who may face more than a decade behind bars if convicted of promoting former One Direction singer Liam Payne the cocaine linked to his deadly balcony plunge practically a yr in the past, insisted as he denied any wrongdoing: “I’m just a working lad who crossed paths with a star. Today I’m paying for that coincidence with my freedom.”

Argentinian prosecutors confirmed in June Braian and 24-year-old Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former employee at the Hotel CasaSur Palermo where Liam died on October 16 2024 after hiring two intercourse staff and binging on drink and medication, could be put on the stand. Paiz, who met the singer in a restaurant he served him at shortly before his deadly fall from the balcony of room 310, has been held on pre-trial detention since January. Like Pereyra he has been accused of promoting cocaine to Liam, just 31 when he died, on two separate events.

He has beforehand protested his innocence by claiming he’s being scapegoated, but in a prison interview has now made a sequence of new bombshell claims about the time he spent with the well-known Brit.

Recalling the night time they received chatting in Cabana Las Lilas, the restaurant in the upmarket neighbourhood of Puerto Madero Braian used to work at and Liam had picked for dinner, he said: “Liam approached me several times, always asking where the toilet was. But what he really wanted was to interact with me. He asked for my Instagram in front of his girlfriend.

“We started talking on a parallel account that he had created just for that purpose. It had no followers, nothing. We never used WhatsApp, as they said in the case. It was always on Instagram and then on iCloud.

“The prosecutor’s office deleted all my locations, but I have the screenshots.”

Braian said the first go to he paid Liam, on October 2 at the luxurious Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Hotel in Buenos Aires where he was staying before switching to the CasaSur Palermo, lasted an hour and a half.

Rubbishing wild and hurtful social media hypothesis about what had occurred during their night time together at the second resort, Braian told Argentinian magazine Gente during a 30-minute prison call interview: “There was intimacy but not inappropriate intimacy.”

No date has yet been set for Paiz and Pereyra’s trial and sources close to the case said this week they didn’t expect it to take place now until next year.

Pereyra, identified by a witness as the man Liam asked to get him “seven grams more” during a transient exchange from a resort elevate filmed on CCTV the afternoon of his death, is being held on remand in Marcos Paz Prison on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

The maximum-security federal prison is thought for housing some of the nation’s most harmful males including drug lords.

Paiz stays in the same Buenos Aires police cell he has been incarcerated in since the start of the yr but is predicted to be transferred to a federal prison before the start of his trial.