Liam PayneHis good friend, who is being chased by Buenos Aires authorities for allegedly abandoning the late singer, says he’s not to blame…instead pointing the finger at the hotel where Liam was staying.
Roger NorrisThe legal team has filed new documents obtained by TMZ in Argentina, and he’s basically arguing that he’s not the one to be investigated … claiming that the CasaSur Palermo hotel played a big role in the matter. Liam’s death.
In the documents, Roger says the hotel did not have a 24-hour doctor … even though he says it is required by law to have one.
Roger claims the hotel failed to effectively keep Liam safe… he says the hotel’s operations manager knew Liam was drunk and on drugs… and says the hotel should have had a doctor present from the moment Liam checked in.
In the documents, Roger says… “The world famous person was at that very moment in obvious signs of going through a drug-induced crisis, and they didn’t even make an effort to cover their legal costs there. Missing a 24-hour doctor.”
What’s more, Roger says that the hotel knew Liam was in the bender for three days in a row and did nothing about it… and he says he wasn’t the one who left Liam alone, insisting that it was actually the hotel manager who left Liam alone. left a room in his home before his fatal fall from the balcony.
Roger claims Liam was clearly trying to escape the hotel after staff physically carried him to his room … and he says Liam had a hat and bag with him when he fell, which also shows , that he was trying to leave the hotel.
As we reported, … prosecutors say Liam spent his last day alive heavy drinking, whiskey drinking for breakfast, hiring 2 prostitutes, and using cocaine, before hotel staff forcibly took him to his room, just moments before. fell to his death from his 3rd floor balcony.
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Roger says the hotel bears at least some of the blame for Liam’s death … and it looks like the judge will look into his claims by going to the hotel to check the room and the cameras.
