CCTV footage emerges showing One Direction star Liam Payne just hours before his death

Eerie CCTV vision of Liam Payne has emerged showing him talking to one of the men allegedly involved in his tragic death just three hours before his fatal fall.

In the surveillance footage obtained by TMZ, the 31-year-old can be seen speaking to a man in the basement of the hotel he was staying in Buenos Aires.

He is seen chatting to a CasaSur Palermo Hotel bellboy who TMZ claims is Ezequiel David Pereyra — one of the men police have accused and charged with supplying Payne drugs.

The two men shake hands before Payne disappears off the camera and back into the elevator.

It’s believed the footage was recorded at 2.04pm, just three hours before the One Direction star fell to his death from his third-storey hotel room.

In the minutes before his death, Payne began behaving erratically in the lobby of the hotel, prompting an employee to call emergency services believing he was under the influence of drugs and a risk to himself.

After his death, police discovered Payne’s hotel room had been smashed up and a drugs were found on a desk in the room.

It’s believed the drugs had been supplied in a Dove soap box — the same box that the hotel used, that only employees could access.

An autopsy revealed Payne has cocaine, ketamine, ecstasy and crystal meth in his system when he died.

Tree people have been charged over his tragic death, with Argentina’s public prosecutor confirming the individuals had been arrested and charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics”.