Musician Rita Ora has remembered former One Direction singer and ex-Chalfont St Giles resident Liam Payne with a tearful tribute at the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs).

The singer died at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last month.

Prior to his death, he had moved to the village, living in the Foxwoods mansion along Turners Wood Drive.

This was to be close to his ex-partner, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy, who he had a young child with.

Tweedy lives in Chalfont St Peter with their son, Bear.

Ora, 33, host of the ceremony in Manchester on November 10, was friends with Payne and had collaborated with the singer on the song For You, which featured on the Fifty Shades Freed soundtrack.

She said: “I just want to take a moment to remember someone very, very dear to us.

“We lost him recently and he was a big part of the MTV world and my world.

“Liam Payne was one of the kindest people that I knew.”

Ora added: “He had the biggest heart and was always the first person to offer help in any way that he could.

“He brought so much joy to every room he walked into and he left such a mark on the world.”

An image of the singer was then shown on screens in the arena.

Following Payne's shock death on October 16, the public prosecutor’s office in Argentina said three people had been charged, with one person who had been accompanying Payne accused of ‘abandonment of a person followed by death’ – which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

An employee at the hotel where Payne was staying and a third person have also been charged with supplying drugs.

Meanwhile, prosecutors also ruled out third-party involvement and ‘self-harm’ in Payne’s death, according to a forensic psychiatric report.

The office also said it had completed a detailed analysis of more than 800 hours of video footage from security cameras and obtained several dozen testimonies from hotel staff, family members, friends and medical professionals.

Nine raids have also been ordered on properties in Buenos Aires and some of Payne’s devices are still being analysed, prosecutors said.

The musician’s body was handed over to his father, Geoff Payne, last weekend, according to the statement.

Prosecutors added that ‘exhaustive and meticulous measures were taken to clarify the circumstances’ around the former One Direction singer’s death.

Payne died from multiple injuries as well as internal and external bleeding caused by the fall, a post-mortem examination said.

His body was found in the hotel’s internal courtyard.