Liam Payne cause of death confirmed as polytrauma. Singer Liam Payne’s medical cause of death has been confirmed in a UK inquest opening as “polytrauma”. The One Direction star died on 16 October after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires. Polytrauma is a term for multiple traumatic injuries which have been sustained to a person’s body and organ systems. The hearing, which was held at Buckinghamshire Coroner’s Court on 17 December, was told it may take “some time” to formally ascertain how the 31-year-old died. The inquest into Payne’s death in the UK has been adjourned until a pre-inquest review on 6 November, the coroner’s court said. His medical cause of death was confirmed by Dr Roberto Victor Cohen as “polytrauma”.The hearing was also told Payne was formally identified “with the assistance of the funeral directors in Buckinghamshire”. Payne became one of the most recognisable names in pop after appearing on The X Factor and rising to fame with the boyband One Direction in the 2010s before the band went on an indefinite hiatus in January 2016.
