Fans of Liam Payne have gathered across the world from London to Paris, New York and Stockholm, to pay tribute to the One Direction star.
The 31-year-old fell from the third floor of the CasaSur Hotel in Argentina’s capital on Wednesday.
Heartbroken fans came together this afternoon to pay their respects at a vigil at the Peter Pan Statue in Kensington Gardens.
The event is held ‘in memory of Liam’ and to ‘honour his shining spirit and unforgettable impact’.
Bereaved attendees brought flowers, letters, drawings as well as One Direction memorabilia to lay under a picture of the star. Some came in groups and hugged and held each other as they mourned his loss.
In one touching moment, fans sang One Direction’s iconic song ‘What Makes You Beautiful — the band’s lead single from their debut album, ‘Up All Night’.
Photographs showed fans leaving messages including one which read: ‘I will love you forever Liam, thank you for saving me’ and another which said ‘going to miss you, you raised me’.’
It comes after a source close to his family spoke of how he was left in his room on the day he fell to his death.
Yesterday, a heart-breaking vigil was held at Keel Warf Bridge in Liverpool with people pictured laying candles, flowers and cars.
In London, heartbroken fans hugged each other as they created a wall of tributes inside the Hard Rock Cafe in Piccadilly Circus.
Tributes have flooded in for the popstar from millions of friends and fans of Payne, including the mother of his child Cheryl Cole.
Local police said they had been called to the luxury hotel prior to Liam’s fall after being ‘informed of an aggressive man who may have been under the effects of drugs and alcohol.’
He had reportedly arrived in the Latin American country earlier this month to attend his ex bandmate Niall Horan’s concert.
A source close to Payne said last night: ‘Liam didn’t have to die. Liam didn’t want to die. He had promised us all he would never commit suicide. He was looking forward to the future.
‘If someone had called an ambulance when he collapsed in the hotel lobby instead of taking him back to his room and leaving him in there alone, in a psychotic state, he would still be with us.’
On Wednesday, thousands of fans gathered outside the hotel, while emergency services worked at the scene around a central red tent at the location the star fell.
Some lit candles, some sang One Direction songs and others held each sobbing as they paused to remember Mr Payne who was one fifth of the most popular boy band of the 2010s.
Last night investigators told the MoS the probe into the star’s death ‘is ongoing’.
Payne arrived in Argentina on September 30 with his girlfriend Kate and close friend Roger Nores.
A source close to Payne said: ‘Liam’s US visa was expiring and he had to leave America to renew it so he decided to go to Buenos Aires to see Niall Horan perform and get his new visa.’
After spending last weekend at a polo farm outside Buenos Aires, girlfriend Kate flew back to Miami on Monday to care for the couple’s dog while Payne checked into the CasaSur hotel.
‘He had no money and his credit cards weren’t working, so he was spending all his time in the room.
‘On Tuesday he asked for a McDonald’s. He was happy and in good spirits.
‘The test results all came back totally clean on Tuesday and he had an appointment at the embassy to get his passport stamped with the visa on Thursday and then he was going to leave Argentina immediately.’
The source said a family friend visited him around 10am that morning to deliver his favourite ‘American style’ chocolate-chip cookies from a bakery three blocks from the hotel.
‘He seemed a bit tipsy, like he had been drinking, but wasn’t in a bad state. He was happy.
‘He was replicating Fireproof on his computer. He loved recreating instrumentals and that was his favourite One Direction song. He was redoing the beat. He was in a good place, planning for the future, looking forward to going home to Miami to his girlfriend and his dog.’
Payne’s father Geoff arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday to identify his son’s body. He was accompanied by long-time One Direction bodyguard Paul Higgins.
Funeral arrangements will be made once Payne’s body has been repatriated to the UK, which may take days.
The source added: ‘The narrative so far has been wrong. People have been saying Liam relapsed on drugs and wanted to kill himself because his life was so bad.
‘That wasn’t the case. He was in a good place. He was happy and making plans for the future with Kate who he loved. Someone gave him drugs and those drugs caused a psychotic event.
‘The tragedy is if someone had called an ambulance when he collapsed in the lobby and was convulsing, he would still be alive.’
Additional reporting: Heather Briley, Federico Fahsbender and Daniel Bates