Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy: I have ‘lost the best part of myself’

Cassidy posted to Instagram a week after the singer’s death

Liam Payne died of multiple traumas after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Argentina (Ian West/PA)

Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy said she has “lost the best part of myself” following the singer’s death at the age of 31.

A post-mortem examination report said former One Direction member Payne died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage” after falling from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.