Liam Payne died on Oct. 16 after falling from the balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His cause of death has reportedly been confirmed as polytrauma.

A UK inquest into Liam Payne’s death has started. Dr Roberto Victor Cohen said at a hearing at Buckinghamshire Coroner’s Court that the cause of Liam Payne’s death was “polytrauma”. The court was told it might take the UK authorities “some time” to establish exactly what happened to Liam Payne in the hours before his death.

The former One Direction star tragically died at the age of 31 after falling from a balcony at the Casa Sur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 16.

The death of Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, has been confirmed through a U.K. inquest as due to polytrauma. The former member of the now-defunct British boy band passed away on October 16 after falling off a third-story hotel balcony in Argentina.

Geoff Payne learnt about his son Liam Payne's drink and drug-fuelled death in an anguished phone call from one of the men facing prosecution over Liam’s third-floor hotel balcony plunge, it emerged today.