Liam Payne's friend issues bombshell statement denying 'abandoning' him hours before death

Liam Payne’s friend has shared as bombshell statement denying "abandoning" the One Direction star before his death. Close friend Rogelio 'Roger' Nores denied he was one of the trio arrested after police detained three people over the ITV The X Factor star dying.

Nores told The Sun: "I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened. I could have never imagined something like this would happen." Nores told The Sun: “I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened.

"There were over 15 people at the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I could have never imagined something like this would happen. I’ve given my statement to the prosecutor on October 17th as a witness. I haven’t spoken to any police officer or prosecutor ever since.

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"I wasn’t Liam’s manager he was just my very dear friend and please refer to the email I sent to Liam and his team on August 23rd. I’m really heart broken with this tragedy, and I’ve missing my friend every day." The prosecutor statement issued on Thursday explained three people had been charged.

“The first of the accused is the person who accompanied the artist on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires, who is charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death - contemplated in article 106 of the Penal Code and which provides for a prison sentence of 5 to 15 years -, as perpetrator, in ideal concurrence with the supply and facilitation of narcotics (art. 5 inc. e) of Law 23.737 on Narcotics)," it said.

“The second defendant is an employee of the hotel who is charged with two proven supplies of cocaine to Liam Payne during the period he was at the hotel, and the third, also a supplier of narcotics, is charged with two other clearly proven supplies at two different times on 14 October. Both were charged with the offence of supplying narcotics, two acts each (art. 5 inc. e) of Law 23.737)."