Harry Styles mourns Liam Payne: ‘I will miss him always, my lovely friend’

Harry Styles said ‘I will miss him always, my lovely friend’ following Liam Payne’s death (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Harry Styles said the years he spent with his One Direction band mate Liam Payne “will forever remain among the most cherished years of my life” following the singer’s death at 31.

Payne, who rose to fame with the boy band on The X Factor, died after falling from a third floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday.