{"id":81503,"date":"2025-10-16T05:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:25:06","slug":"hotel-worker-accused-of-selling-liam-payne-drugs-says-staff-could-have-done-more-to-save-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81503\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel worker accused of selling Liam Payne drugs says staff could have done more to save him"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been reported that the singer was under the influence of potent drugs<\/a> at the time of his death. <\/p>\n

Pereyra, who is awaiting trial, said the hotel\u2019s \u201cbiggest mistake\u201d was not calling an ambulance after the singer collapsed in the lobby. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf the hotel had acted differently Liam could have been saved. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey lifted him by his arms and legs and carried him to the room via the elevator. He should have been kept where he was and an ambulance called.\u201d <\/p>\n

He said that staff called police instead of an ambulance after taking him to the room, but that by the time they made the call it was too late. <\/p>\n

Accusations of Pereyra selling drugs to Payne are based on testimony from the hotel general manager, according to The Sun. <\/p>\n

The outlet reported that case files it had seen said a witness claimed he saw Pereyra with a $100 bill. <\/p>\n

Pereyra told him he had to run an errand for a guest. <\/p>\n

He later clarified it was to \u201cbring drugs\u201d. <\/p>\n

Payne asked a receptionist at the hotel for a taxi to Pereyra\u2019s address the next day because he needed something brought to him, it reported. <\/p>\n

Pereyra is also accused of allegedly selling the drug to Payne in the hotel basement hours before his death, the files said, according to the outlet. <\/p>\n

CCTV footage showed Pereyra shaking hands with the star. <\/p>\n

Witnesses reported allegedly hearing Payne say he would need another 7g of the drug, the files said. <\/p>\n

Pereyra said that the footage did not show him giving Payne anything and that the truth was being hidden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been reported that the singer was under the influence of potent drugs at the time of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1117,8018,9218,20926,124,634,8473,1757,156,305,16718,6735,20409,424,130,111,139,69,1118,62589,11590,312,24035,1516,3374,61,12767],"class_list":["post-81503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accused","tag-argentina","tag-before","tag-cocaine","tag-could","tag-death","tag-done","tag-drugs","tag-entertainment","tag-have","tag-him","tag-hotel","tag-liam","tag-life","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-payne","tag-save","tag-says","tag-selling","tag-staff","tag-supplying","tag-to","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}