Mystery of Liam Payne's missing £30k Rolex watch after woman 'went back to his room'

Liam Payne’s watch reportedly vanished after a woman he spent time with before his death “went back to his room” to retrieve her makeup, it was claimed today.

Police probing the 31-year-old’s death have been searching for a £30,000 Rolex watch that was reported missing from the singer’s hotel room.

Liam is said to have been seen wearing the Rolex in CCTV images and other photos incorporated into the prosecution case files shortly before he died around 5pm local time on October 16.

Respected Argentinian news website Infobae says that the women in question mentioned she’d forgotten her cosmetics in the singer’s third-floor suite.

Citing sources close to the ongoing criminal investigation into Liam’s November 16 death, said he accompanied her in the lift back up to the room, adding: “There Payne’s Rolex watch disappeared.”

The women at the centre of investigation, identified locally as Lucila Marianela Goitea, 27, and Aldana Milagros Serrano, 31, are being treated by prosecutors as witnesses and not suspects.

But Infobae reported today they have hired a lawyer it named as Martin Castillo even though as witnesses they don’t need legal representation.

The lawyer is already said to have requested copies of the case files.

Both women faced questions by prosecutors after Liam’s fatal fall from his third-floor room balcony on October 16 and reportedly handed in their mobile phones voluntarily, although the data stored on them is not yet thought to have been extracted and analysed.

Argentinian police reportedly carried out a series of raids on a string residences, including a flat said to have been used by one of the women failed to yield any trace of the missing luxury watch.