Liam James Payne (born 29 August 1993) is an English singer and songwriter.
He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction.
Payne made his debut as a singer when he auditioned for the British television series The X Factor in 2008. After being eliminated as a solo performer, he auditioned again in 2010 and was put into a group with four other contestants to form One Direction
'The plastic was melting into my skin... it was just going deeper and deeper'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA teenage girl has recounted the horrific and unprovoked assault that left her with severe burns. Alyssia-Rae Yates described how a boy, possibly as young as 11, recklessly kicked a fire containing molten plastic toward her while she was in a St Helens field, causing excruciating pain.
The 13-year-old rugby player had been relaxing with pals on Blackbrook fields around 6pm on 11 October, before she remembers 'dropping to the ground' and 'screaming' as the plastic 'melted into' her skin, reports the Liverpool Echo. READ NEXT: Major search for missing man at Dovestone Reservoir enters second day "My friends were trying to pat it down, but then they realised it wouldn't come off," she said. "So they took me home.
In the ambulance, my legs were still red and I was shaking a lot because of the shock of it happening. It was really unexpected, I didn't think anything would happen.
It was a big shock. "I immediately went to the ground and screamed. When I dropped to the floor, the plastic was melting into my skin.
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