Liam Payne’s body to be flown back to the UK next week as family issued huge update on star’s shock death

Liam Payne’s family have been issued a huge update on their son’s death, with the One Direction star reportedly being flown back to the UK in the coming days.

It has been reported that undertakers are said to have moved the singer from a Buenos Aires morgue to the 1820s-founded British Cemetery in the northern part of the Argentinian capital.

Prosecutors recently gave his heartbroken dad, Geoff Payne, permission to take him home, with local media reporting the repatriation will take place tomorrow or Monday – “48 hours maximum”.

Respected Argentinian daily La Nacion said Payne’s father had been told personally in a meeting with prosecution chief Andres Madrea that he could return to the UK with his son’s body two weeks after flying to the South American country following the 31-year-old’s three-storey hotel fall.

It said: “All the documents are ready for the former One Direction singer to return to his homeland so a funeral can take place there next week.

“When Geoff Payne reached Argentina on October 18 he was told the repatriation process could take between four and five days, but because of the circumstances surrounding his son’s death things took longer than expected.”

Whilst Payne’s family will now have the comfort of bringing their son home, prosecutors have yet to confirm the results are back from the toxicology.

The singer’s father was told that tissue tests would have to be completed before the repatriation could occur during his first meeting with Mr Madrea on October 21.

The What Makes You Beautiful singer’s death at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel sparked a probe which investigators initially linked to a substance-induced “psychotic episode” with no “third-party” involvement.

It was reported that Argentinian police entered the hotel where Payne had been staying to examine computers and paperwork in what is thought to have been part of a hunt for his drug dealer.

Foreign news outlet – Infobae – allegedly reported that three days prior, forensic experts had discovered traces of cocaine in Payne’s body but tests on a white powder pictured in leaked photos showing the inside of his hotel suite after his death had so far proved “inconclusive.”

Whilst some reports remain unconfirmed, it has been reported that a cocktail of drugs including designer narcotic pink cocaine containing MDMA, ketamine, methamphetamine had been found in his system during a partial autopsy along with crack cocaine and benzodiazepine.