Ione Wells
Reporting from the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires

“Breakfast was quite quiet this morning.”

That was the message from Doug Jones who was staying in the same hotel as Liam Payne when he died.

He did not want to be photographed, but spoke to me outside.

“I worked at the hotel all day yesterday, so I was here all day. The room across the street, I think they were staying there,” he said.

‘I thought they were working on the room. There was a lot of noise, like heavy lifting, like banging, a lot of loud, violent noises, I thought.

“And I saw hotel people going in and out of that room, so I thought they were working on the room.”

“So around 4:00, 4:30 p.m. I started hearing some more noise, I was still working and around 4:45, 5:00 p.m. I heard a very loud, violent scream.”

He said this was his first time visiting anywhere outside the US, so he thought if he heard sirens it might be “normal.”

But he realized something was wrong when he came down and “the whole road was full of cops.”