Liam Payne 'smashed laptop in anger' after receiving email minutes before death

Rebecca, one of the last people to speak to the popstar at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital on Wednesday, has spoken out to MailOnline.

Liam Payne "smashed a laptop" in anger after receiving an email minutes before his death, it has been claimed. Rebecca, one of the last people to speak to the popstar at the Casa Sur Hotel in the Argentine capital on Wednesday, has spoken out to MailOnline.

The hotel guest said ITV The X Factor star Liam showed 'disturbing and weird behaviour' as he smashed his laptop on the floor and was accompanied by an 'entourage' of two women and a British man. She said his bizarre behaviour and its horrific aftermath had left her 'shaken'.

Rebecca's surprise 30-minute long encounter with Payne took place in the foyer of the hotel, where she was staying for a wedding. Rebecca took her photos from 4.26pm local time (8.26pm UK time) and just 36 minutes later, hotel staff raised the alarm at 5.04pm following Payne's fall.

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Rebecca told MailOnline in an exclusive interview: "One of my friends was due to get his suite, so the hotel staff were a little on edge because he still hadn't checked out at 4.30pm, but also because of his behaviour. I came into the hotel, and he was waiting by the elevator, and it was so clear he wanted someone to recognise him, there was something a bit desperate about him.

"I was with my friends and we did know who he was, but none of us were that bothered." He began reading emails after flopping onto a sofa, wearing a white vest, cargo pants and trainers, Rebecca said, adding: "I have a blind relative and I realised he had the laptop on its accessibility setting, for some reason, so that each time he moved the mouse, hovering over something the machine spoke out loud to say where the cursor was.

"'I assumed he was doing that for the attention too. Then he opened his emails and saw one which obviously upset him. Suddenly he took the computer, shouted 'f**k this s**t mate!' and started bashing the computer on the ground." A post-mortem examination report revealed that Payne died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”.

The Argentine public prosecutor’s office on Thursday said: “Everything indicates that the musician was alone when the fall occurred, and was going through some kind of episode due to substance abuse”.