Liam Payne’s father visits scene of singer’s death in Buenos Aires

Geoff Payne is believed to be arranging the repatriation of his son’s body from Argentina

The father of former One Direction star Liam Payne has visited the scene in Buenos Aires of the singer’s death. 
Geoff Payne was seen in a navy suit leaving the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital, where the 31-year-old British star fell from a third-floor balcony on Wednesday.
Mr Payne flew to the country to organise the repatriation of his son’s body, the Associated Press reported.
He was seen visiting tributes to his son laid by fans outside the hotel, reading letters and pausing around flowers, photographs and candles.
It comes after the singer’s family said they were “heartbroken” following his death, adding: “Liam will forever live in our hearts and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul.”
Meanwhile Simon Cowell, the impressario and X Factor TV show creator, said he was “truly devastated” after the death of the singer, adding that he also felt “heartbroken” and “empty”.
Payne found fame with Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles when Cowell put them together to form One Direction on the ITV talent show in 2010.
“Every tear I have shed is a memory of you,” he wrote on Instagram.
Payne first auditioned for the X Factor in 2008 when he was 14, singing Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, with judge Cowell telling him to return to the talent show two years later.
“I had to tell you when you were 14 that this wasn’t your time. And we both made a promise that we would meet again. A lot of people would have given up. You didn’t,” Cowell wrote.
He added that Payne had visited him last year where they “reminisced about all of the fun times we had together”.
“After you left, I was reminded that you were still the sweet, kind boy I had met all of those years ago,” he added.
Horan said in a tribute he would “cherish every moment” he had with Payne “forever”.
Payne was spotted dancing at Horan’s show about two weeks ago at the Movistar Arena with his girlfriend Cassidy in Argentina.
The singer died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, a post mortem examination found.
Argentina’s national criminal and correctional prosecutor’s Office No 16 said it was investigating the incident as an “inconclusive death” following the report.