Liam Payne's father given heartbreaking news 'he could be waiting 10 days' before 31-year-old's body can be flown home - as he makes vow to Argentinian police

Liam Payne's heartbroken begetter has been warned he could person to hold 10 days for support to return his son's assemblage home.

Geoff Payne arrived successful Buenos Aires past week to formally place his boy and bring him location aft nan 31-year-old erstwhile One Direction prima fell to his decease from a edifice balcony.

The 66-year-old centrifugal mechanic visited nan morgue wherever his boy is being held and said pinch nan Argentine Ministry of Justice officials who are investigating nan circumstances astir nan tragedy.

He besides visited nan boutique CasaSur Palermo Hotel wherever his boy died and thanked fans for their tributes and vigil.

A post-mortem recovered that nan vocalist died from aggregate injuries accordant pinch falling 45ft from nan pavilion of his suite successful Palermo territory of nan city.

But prosecutors are treating his decease arsenic 'inconclusive' while they await nan results of toxicological examinations.

And past night, Prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea, nan lead investigator, warned Mr Payne it could beryllium 10 days earlier nan introspection results travel backmost from nan laboratory and that he would not beryllium capable to return his son's assemblage location before.

'Geoff has been told it mightiness return 10 days for nan tests to beryllium completed and for him to return Liam home,' a family friend revealed.

'He is uncovering nan full business really tough. Geoff wholly heart-broken astatine losing his son.

'But he has vowed to do correct by Liam and will not spell location without him.

'It is nan uncertainty of not knowing erstwhile this ordeal will beryllium complete is what he is uncovering very difficult to woody with.

'The Argentine officials opportunity they expect nan results to return 10 days, but it mightiness beryllium a batch little clip than that.'

Last nighttime Mr Payne met pinch nan charismatic who is starring nan investigation into his son's death, nan caput of nan National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 14, Andrés Esteban Madrea.

Mr Madrea gave Mr Payne an update connected nan advancement of nan lawsuit and discussed whether nan specifications of nan cases should beryllium kept private.

Geoff Payne said he wanted nan lawsuit to beryllium transparent and open.

He added that he was consenting to 'testify astir everything he knows astir his son's life that could thief nan investigation'.

The charismatic told Mr Payne nan 'toxicological and histopathological' examinations of his son's remains had not yet been completed, and that he could not merchandise nan assemblage until he had nan results.

Mr Madrea added that forensic examinations were besides being carried retired connected 'mobile phones, computers, photographs and videos from information cameras' recovered astatine nan hotel.

He told Mr Payne that edifice unit were being questioned amid claims that his son, who had ditched his maltreatment of narcotics and alcohol, had been preyed connected by supplier dealers astatine nan boutique venue.

Mr Madrea besides offered Mr Payne constabulary protection owed to nan high-profile quality of his son's death.

In a connection Argentina's Ministry of Justice said: 'The caput of nan National Prosecutor's Office successful Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 14, Andrés Esteban Madrea, met yesterday pinch Geoff Payne, nan begetter of British musician Liam James Payne, who was recovered dormant past Wednesday successful a edifice successful nan Palermo neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, to pass him successful personification astir nan advancement of nan investigation.

'The typical of nan Public Prosecutor's Office informed nan begetter that toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to nan autopsy person not yet been completed, and their results are basal to determine connected nan merchandise of nan body.

'Meanwhile, arsenic portion of nan inquiry, examinations are being conducted connected compartment phones, computers, photographs, and information camera videos, which require a longer study time.

'Additionally, galore witnesser statements person been taken to reconstruct nan victim's past hours and nan segment of nan events, a process that is still ongoing involving edifice staff, acquaintances, method and aesculapian professionals, and others connected to nan unfortunate done his work.

'Furthermore, nan consular practice of nan United Kingdom was informed astir nan ineligible proceedings relating to nan lawsuit since nan unfortunate is simply a British citizen, and due statement was taken of their connection of collaboration.

'To respect nan representation of nan victim, each developments arising from nan investigation will first beryllium communicated to nan family, and fixed nan precocious nationalist vulnerability of nan musician, connection will beryllium constricted to nan organization channels of nan Public Prosecutor's Office.'

Prosecutor Andreas Esteban Madrea has brought immoderate of Argentina's astir high-profile cases to court.

Mr Madrea secured a 12-year condemnation against a leader who had raped 2 nuns, he brought corruption municipality hallway officials who allowed an unsafe nightclub that collapsed sidesplitting 2 and injuring 50 to enactment unfastened to court, and he secured a $2 cardinal good against erstwhile Boca Juniors shot prima Alberto Marcico for fraud and breach of contracts.

Officials besides confirmed yesterday that arsenic good arsenic nan ongoing forensic tests, investigators were still analysing 'mobile phones, computers, photographs and CCTV footage', saying: 'They will require a longer play of analysis.'

Last week prosecutors confirmed they had interviewed 3 edifice workers and 2 women who had spent clip pinch nan One Direction prima earlier he died.

They said coming nan activity to portion together nan singer's past hours was continuing pinch 'hotel workers, acquaintances, method and aesculapian professionals and different group linked to him done his work.'

Mr Payne is known to person spent clip pinch Argentinian businessman Rogelio Nores, who is understood to person fixed a connection to investigators.

The singer's family person been reassured they will beryllium nan first to person immoderate caller accusation that comes out, pursuing nan leaking of pictures from Liam's edifice room past week that were published successful Argentinian media and showed a achromatic powder connected a table which is still being analysed.

Prosecutors person categorised nan decease arsenic 'inconclusive' but said location is nary grounds astatine this shape pointing to immoderate third-party engagement and person said he whitethorn person plunged from his pavilion successful a 'in a authorities of semi aliases full unconsciousness' during a substance-induced psychotic episode.

The first autopsy, performed past Wednesday night, showed Mr Payne had died of aggregate trauma injuries which had caused 'internal and outer haemorrhaging.'

A edifice head phoned 911, nan UK balanced of 999, past Wednesday day conscionable earlier nan vocalist died to say: 'We person a impermanent who's disconnected his caput connected narcotics and is destroying everything successful his room. We request personification to come.'

In a 2nd telephone he added: 'we request you to nonstop personification urgently because, well, I don't cognize if nan guest's life is successful danger. They must beryllium successful a room that has a balcony. And well, we're a small spot worried he'll do something, that he'll put his life astatine risk.'

Police trying to find retired who supplied Mr Payne pinch nan narcotics he is suspected of taking earlier his decease are said to person looked into whether his trader was a edifice worker.

Pals of nan vocalist person claimed he was cleanable conscionable days earlier nan tragedy.

Sources adjacent to nan vocalist said he entered Argentina connected September 30 and was forced to widen his enactment location owed to issues renewing his expiring American visa.

He arrived pinch his woman Kate Cassidy but she near Buenos Aires to return to nan States soon earlier nan tragedy.