Liam Payne’s medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening as “polytrauma”. A hearing, which Buckinghamshire Coroner’s Court said was held on December 17, was told it may take “some time” to ascertain how the One Direction star died.

Five people have been charged by Argentinean criminal authorities in connection with the death of Liam Payne, the former One Direction member who died in October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires.

The results matched those previously released by Argentinian authorities in their investigation into the singer's Oct. 16 death following a fall from a hotel balcony.

A press release issued at the time of his passing listed "polytrauma and internal and external bleeding" as the cause of death. Now, UK coroner Dr. Roberto Victor Cohen has officially confirmed Payne's cause of death as "polytrauma,

The medical cause of the late One Direction star's death has been revealed as "polytrauma", meaning multiple traumatic injuries, three months after he fatally fell from a hotel balcony in Argentina on 16 October 2024.

An autopsy conducted in the country found that he died from multiple injuries and external bleeding, but a UK inquest was also opened into the singer’s death. Liam Payne’s 1D bandmates, James Corden and more friends and musicians mourn singer That inquiry,

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.

The death inquest of former One Direction member Liam Payne has revealed shocking new details. The court has officially linked his tragic passing to 'polytrauma,' a term used to describe multiple severe injuries.