An Argentinian waiter accused of being Liam Payne’s drug dealer today broke his silence to insist he had done nothing wrong.

Braian Nahuel Paiz, who was identified in an ongoing prosecution probe, admitted to two hotel meetings with the 31-year-old before his fatal October 16 plunge and confessed to taking drugs with him.

But he insisted he never supplied Liam with narcotics or accepted any money from him.

The 24-year-old said he spent the night with the former One Direction singer at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires during a second rendezvous.

Paiz, who appeared on Argentinian TV on Saturday, claimed that he first met Liam at the restaurant where he worked in the upmarket neighbourhood of Puerto Madero. He said he exchanged contact details with the singer as he dined with his girlfriend Kate Cassidy and two other people.

He spoke in an on-camera interview to journalist Guillermo Panizza, who at points had to clarify to a programme host in the studio what Paiz meant to say when the young man’s nerves seemed to get the better of him.

After first bumping into Liam at the restaurant where he worked, Paiz said he next saw him on October 2 at an arranged meeting at a hotel where the singer was staying.

‘I never supplied Liam with drugs,’ he said. ‘Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work.