Cops ‘return to Liam Payne’s hotel searching for star’s missing Rolex watch’ he was wearing hours before tragic death
POLICE probing Liam Payne’s death have returned to his hotel room to search for a £30,000 Rolex watch that has been reported missing.
Two officers arrived at the CasurSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires this morning where One Direction star Liam tragically fell from his balcony and died some four weeks ago.
They went up to his third-floor room to continue a search for the singer’s missing gold Rolex, the Daily Mail reports.
The room has been taped off since Liam, 31, died on October 16.
He was wearing the watch in CCTV taken that day, but it was not on his body when he was found and efforts to recover it have been unsuccessful.
Cops investigating the case suspect it may have been stolen.
Police sources told Argentinian daily La Nacion: “We know, from images that were analyzed, that Payne was wearing a Rolex on the day of his death.
“He was wearing it in one of his hands and he had it for at least two to three hours before he [fell].
“We looked for him in the room at the CasaSur hotel where he was staying and we couldn’t find him.”
Investigators raided the homes of three men last week as part of an ongoing criminal probe into Liam’s death.
They did not recover the watch – and it was not found at the homes of two female escorts who are being handled as witnesses after spending hours with Liam on the night he died.
As part of the investigation Liam’s room has been sealed off, 800 hours of security camera footage has been searched and 20 witnesses questioned.
Three people have been charged in connection with Liam’s death including a hotel worker and a suspected drug dealer.
The third charged is believed to be someone close to Liam, Argentina’s public prosecutor said.
A post-mortem concluded Liam’s death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external haemorrhage” after the fall.
Prosecutors said there was nothing to indicate any third party was involved in the death.
They also ruled out “self-harm”, according to a forensic psychiatric report.