Guest at Liam Payne's hotel could hear 'banging' then a 'violent scream' in hours before death

Residents staying in the CasaSur Hotel in Buenos Aires have described hearing "loud" and "violent" noises coming from room in the hour before his death. , just after 5pm local time.

The former star had been on a two-week holiday in Argentina with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy, with the intention of seeing his former bandmate Niall Horan's gig in the country. However, more than a week after the concert, he was alone in the CasaSur hotel, where he would tragically fall 14 metres from his balcony onto an internal patio area.

A panicked call from the hotel manager about a guest “intoxicated by drugs and alcohol... trashing the room” came into the police, shortly before the tragic fall. Speaking to the shortly after the shocking incident, fellow hotel guest Doug Jones said: "I thought they were working on the room. There was a lot of noise, like heavy lifting, like banging, a lot of loud, violent noises, I thought."

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Doug then saw hotel staff going into the suite where Liam Payne is believed to have been staying. He added: "I saw hotel people going in and out of that room, so I thought they were doing work on the room."

However the loud noises returned, "So about 4pm, 4.30pm, I started hearing some more noise, I was still doing work," he said. "I heard a really loud, violent scream around 4.45pm, 5pm."

The police arrived just before 5pm, but reported hearing a loud bang from the courtyard as they arrived. A short while later, the tourist saw the "road full of cops," as the full tragedy on Wednesday evening began to unfold.

In a statement, the local ambulance manager told TN: "At 17.04 through the 911 integrated public safety system, we were alerted of a person who was in an internal courtyard of the management of a south house hotel.

“There is an internal courtyard where the victim fell, with tables and chairs: the hotel’s confectionery shop operates there. The space has a retractable roof that was open at the time. Fortunately, there were no other people there.”