Payne pictured next to a lift in the Casa Sur Hotel lobby at 4.28pm last Wednesday – shortly before his death, which is currently being treated as ‘inconclusive’

Kate had added: ‘We did a meet and greet with three different dogs and this one fit us best. She’s so sweet. She’s only four months old. She was abandoned by her previous owners and dumped at the shelter. We wanted to give her a second chance and a better life’