November 11, 2024, 05:42 | Updated: November 11, 2024, 05:44

Stars from around the world paid tribute to Liam Payne last night at the MTV Music Awards.

Presenter Rita Ora fought back tears as she greeted the late One Direction star, saying he had “the biggest heart”.

Artists from around the world gathered in Manchester on Sunday as the music industry paid tribute to Payne, who died aged 31 last month.

The 31-year-old man died after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires on October 16.

Speaking on stage, Ora said: “I just want to take a moment to remember someone very, very dear to us.

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“We lost him recently and he was a big part of MTV’s world and mine.”

Liam Payne “had the biggest heart and was always the first person to offer help in any way he could,” she continued.

“He brought so much joy to every room he walked into and left a huge mark on the world.”

It comes after three people have been charged in connection with the star’s death.

The three people charged are someone close to Payne, a hotel employee and an alleged drug dealer.

Argentine prosecutors say they have been charged with “abandonment of a person resulting in death” and “supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

The emergency services had been called the day Payne fell at the Hotel Casa Sur due to a “guest who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and who had destroyed some objects in the room.”

The statement from the prosecutors reads: “Based on the evidence collected and after analyzing the different bodies of the process and numerous documentary annexes and the background of the case, prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea formally charged three people, requesting their interrogation. and detention in a 180-page document”. ruling presented last Friday to Judge Bruniard.

The statement added: “Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of markedly decreased or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall.”

Argentina’s Public Ministry had been investigating the circumstances surrounding Payne’s death.

It is being treated as “an inconclusive death”, and an initial post-mortem examination found that he died instantly due to multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhages”.