Waiter Braian Paiz says he shares his remand cell with one other 15 individuals who have nicknamed him “killer” and left him in concern of his life. He claimed he has been burnt, overwhelmed and threatened with electrocution in jail. The 25-year-old, who might face greater than a decade behind bars if convicted of promoting former One Course singer Liam Payne the cocaine linked to his deadly balcony plunge practically a yr in the past, insisted as he denied any wrongdoing: “I’m only a working lad who crossed paths with a star. Right now I’m paying for that coincidence with my freedom.”
Argentinian prosecutors confirmed in June Braian and 24-year-old Ezequiel David Pereyra, a former employee on the Lodge CasaSur Palermo the place Liam died on October 16 2024 after hiring two intercourse employees and binging on drink and medicines, can be placed on the stand. Paiz, who met the singer in a restaurant he served him at shortly earlier than his deadly fall from the balcony of room 310, has been held on pre-trial detention since January. Like Pereyra he has been accused of promoting cocaine to Liam, simply 31 when he died, on two separate events.
He has beforehand protested his innocence by claiming he’s being scapegoated, however in a jail interview has now made a collection of recent bombshell claims in regards to the time he spent with the well-known Brit.
Recalling the night time they acquired chatting in Cabana Las Lilas, the restaurant within the upmarket neighbourhood of Puerto Madero Braian used to work at and Liam had picked for dinner, he stated: “Liam approached me a number of instances, all the time asking the place the bathroom was. However what he actually needed was to work together with me. He requested for my Instagram in entrance of his girlfriend.
“We began speaking on a parallel account that he had created only for that objective. It had no followers, nothing. We by no means used WhatsApp, as they stated within the case. It was all the time on Instagram after which on iCloud.
“The prosecutor’s workplace deleted all my areas, however I’ve the screenshots.”
Braian stated the primary go to he paid Liam, on October 2 on the luxurious Palacio Duhau – Park Hyatt Lodge in Buenos Aires the place he was staying earlier than switching to the CasaSur Palermo, lasted an hour and a half.
Rubbishing wild and hurtful social media hypothesis about what had occurred throughout their night time collectively on the second lodge, Braian advised Argentinian journal Gente throughout a 30-minute jail name interview: “There was intimacy however not sexual intimacy.”
No date has but been set for Paiz and Pereyra’s trial and sources near the case stated this week they didn’t anticipate it to happen now till subsequent yr.
Pereyra, recognized by a witness as the person Liam requested to get him “seven grams extra” throughout a short alternate from a lodge carry filmed on CCTV the afternoon of his dying, is being held on remand in Marcos Paz Jail on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
The utmost-security federal jail is understood for housing a few of the nation’s most harmful males together with drug lords.
Paiz stays in the identical Buenos Aires police cell he has been incarcerated in because the begin of the yr however is anticipated to be transferred to a federal jail earlier than the beginning of his trial.
