The daughter of singer-songwriter and Band Aid founder Bob Geldof was covered in needle marks and police found 6.9g of heroin with a purity of 61 per cent, worth up to £550, stashed in a cupboard over a door at her family’s home in Wrotham, Kent.
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Police have halted the search for Peaches Geldof’s drug dealer, saying “all lines of inquiry were exhausted”.
Peaches, 25, was found slumped face down on a bed in a spare room at the home she shared with her husband, musician Tom Cohen, and two children on April 7 previous year.
At the time of the inquest, North West Kent Coroner Roger Hatch noted that Geldof’s had been “drugs-related” and specifically that heroin had been involved.
Peaches’ phone records were analysed to track down her supplier.
Her husband had been staying with his mother in South East London over the weekend, with the couple’s two sons Astala, two, and Phaedra, one, and told officials that he had spoken to her multiple times while they were apart and that “she seemed fine”.
Pathologist Peter Jerreat said at the inquest that evidence of injections had been found on Peaches’ body during a post-mortem examination carried out on April 9. In the months leading to her death, Peaches had seemingly turned her life around after quitting her party lifestyle in London.
Detective Superintendent Paul Fotheringham of Kent Police – who led the probe – said: “Our investigation has exhausted all lines of enquiry and has now concluded“.
Cohen said he saw some text messages that suggested Geldof started using the drug again in February 2014, and that he had witnessed her flushing drugs she had hidden in their loft down the toilet.
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In a heartbreaking interview just six months after Peaches’ passed away, her father Sir Bob Geldof said he “blames himself” for her death. He said: “You’re the father who is responsible and clearly failed“.
