Fans of the late star have been left enraged after a social media account shared disturbing photos of Liam Payne's body, days after he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina.

It took hours for TMZ to take down the photos that purportedly showed former One Direction singer Liam Payne’s body on the ground in Buenos Aires. But how did the photos, which the outlet said it used to confirm Payne‘s death—which police had already announced—end up on the celebrity gossip website’s page at all?

The decision to publish images from the scene of the former One Direction star's death has been widely condemned online, but the US gossip site's executive producer has defended the move