Peaches WAS using heroin - now police launch probe into her death: Husband could be questioned as officers investigate supply of drug

Peaches Geldof, 25, found dead a t her home in Kent earlier this month

Inquest in Gravesend, Kent, opened after results were returned to coroner

DCI Paul Fotheringham said 'recent use of heroin' was evident



Hearing was told her husband Thomas Cohen found her in a spare room

The mother-of-two was said to have been 'slumped' on the bed



Case was adjourned after short hearing and will restart on July 23



A criminal investigation has been launched into the death of Peaches Geldof as it was revealed she died after taking heroin.

Police yesterday said they want to know who supplied the 25-year-old journalist and TV personality with the drug.

There are also serious questions over why there was no drug-taking paraphernalia in her home by the time authorities arrived.

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Heroin was said to have played a role in the death of Peaches Geldof, an inquest has heard. Peaches' mother Paula Yates died from an accidental overdose in 2000, aged 41 DCI Paul Fotheringham confirmed the drug 'contributed' to her death during a short statement as the inquest into the mother-of-two's death opened Detectives could now question her husband, musician Thomas Cohen, who was the first person to find her body before raising the alarm, saying he could not revive her. The investigation was begun as the opening of an inquest into the death yesterday confirmed that Peaches had died after taking a potentially lethal hit of heroin while in sole charge of her baby son Phaedra. The brief hearing was told how Mr Cohen screamed as he returned home to find his wife slumped across her bed, with one leg dangling off the side. RELATED ARTICLES Previous

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Pictured: Three weeks on from the death of daughter Peaches,... Share this article Share The incident has tragic similarities to the death of Peaches’ mother Paula Yates, who died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41. She was discovered alone with her young daughter Tiger Lily, then four. The senior officer from Kent POlice told the hearing at Gravesend Coroners Court the model was in contact with friends in the days before her death and there was no 'cause for concern' Coroner Roger Hatch adjourned Ms Geldof's inquest until July 23 On the day of her death, Peaches had posted a picture of herself as a young girl with her late mother – although she was said to have been her ‘normal self’ before the incident. Kent Police detective chief inspector Paul Fotheringham told the inquest she had been making ‘plans for the future’, but that ‘recent use of heroin and the levels identified were likely to have played a role in her death’. After Peaches was found on Monday, April 7, police said the death was unexplained but ruled out any suggestion of third party involvement. However, because no drug paraphernalia was found at the scene, there are now questions over who supplied the heroin and whether there was a clear-up before authorities arrived. Last night, Kent Police declined to comment on whether Mr Cohen, former singer with the band S.C.U.M., had been or would be questioned, and would not elaborate on details of the investigation. They added that no one had yet been arrested or interviewed under caution over the death. A spokesman confirmed, however, that the force was probing the supply of the drugs likely to have killed Peaches. Peaches’s family did not attend yesterday’s ten-minute hearing, with the full inquest expected to begin in late July.

Peaches is said to have posted this picture of her as a child with her mother Paula hours before she was found



Peaches' youngest son Phaedra, who turned one on April 24, was believed to have been in the home with Peaches when she died

Tragic: The opening of an inquest into Peaches Geldof's death yesterday revealed she had taken heroin - prompting police to launch a probe to establish who supplied her with the fatal class A drug Gravesend Old Town Hall heard details of the moment the mother of two was discovered dead at the home she shared with Mr Cohen and their sons, Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra in Wrotham, Kent. Mr Cohen, 23, had left his wife alone at the £1million property four days beforehand to spend the weekend at his parents’ home in south-east London. It was said to be a regular arrangement that allowed the couple to focus on their work. While she was in the house, Peaches remained in constant contact with family and friends and was making plans for the future, said Mr Fotheringham. At 5pm the night before the tragedy, Mr Cohen’s father Keith took Phaedra back to Wrotham and spent half an hour with Peaches before leaving. The last contact with her is thought to have been at 7.45pm that evening, when she had a telephone conversation with a friend. ‘All of the friends and family who had contact with Peaches during this period described how she seemed her normal self and was making plans for the future, including a family outing for her sons for the following weekend,’ Mr Fotheringham added. ‘There was no cause for concern.’

Police officers attend the home of Peaches Geldof in Wrotham, Kent, shortly after she was found dead earlier this month The following morning, Mr Cohen could not get hold of his wife and decided to return home with his mother, Sue, and his other son, Astala, at about 1.30pm. After discovering his wife’s body, he screamed out to his mother and rushed to find his baby son before calling 999 five minutes later.

Mr Fotheringham added: ‘Thomas entered the property and went upstairs thinking that Peaches may have been sleeping.

‘Thomas then located Peaches in a spare bedroom and it was obvious to him that she was deceased. She was located on the edge of a bed with one leg hanging down to the floor with the other leg tucked underneath her; she was slumped forward across the bed.’

Police and paramedics arrived and confirmed she had died.

The television presenter Peaches Geldof with her husband Thomas Cohen and their two sons, Phaedra and Astala. Mr Cohen was said to have found his wife 'slumped' on the bed in a spare room

The 25-year-old, daughter of Bob Geldof, was found dead at her country home earlier this month in what was described by police as a 'non-suspicious' and 'sudden unexplained' death

The decorated coffin carrying Peaches Geldof arrives at St Mary Magdalene & St Lawrence Church

A post-mortem examination carried out by Dr Peter Jerreat at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford was subsequently inconclusive. Further tests have now confirmed heroin had been taken, Mr Fotheringham said.

Peaches was buried last month in a coffin decorated with a picture of her young family at the church near Faversham where she married just two years ago.

It was also where her parents – Miss Yates and Sir Bob Geldof – tied the knot in 1986 and where her mother’s funeral was held.

A police spokesman said: ‘Kent Police can confirm an ongoing investigation into the supply of drugs in connection with the death of Peaches Geldof.’

Coroner Roger Hatch adjourned the inquest until July 23.

'WE ARE JUST SO SIMILAR': PARALLELS WITH HER MOTHER HAD HAUNTED PEACHES IN THE WEEKS BEFORE HER DEATH

Paula Yates pictured with Peaches Geldof at Disney Castle Peaches was just 11 when her mother Paula Yates was found dead after a heroin overdose. When her body was discovered in her Notting Hill, west London home, in 2000, Peaches' four-year-old sister Tiger Lily was found playing nearby by a family friend. The 25-year-old had recently spoken of feeling the presence of her late mother keenly as she walked down the aisle of St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church. Speaking to Aga Living magazine, published in the Sunday Times, Peaches said she felt her TV presenter mother was 'living through me all the time because we are just so similar'. Just weeks before her untimely death, Peaches Geldof spoke of the hopes she harboured for her two young children, but revealed she had not fully made peace with her own childhood. - but that she had with her mother.

The last message she posted online was a picture of her as a toddler with her mother. In a tragic final interview the late star said it was through being a mother that she had reconciled herself with her memories of her own mother, Paula Yates, who died in 2000 at 41 from an accidental heroin overdose. Explaining that being a mother to her two sons - Astala, two, and one-year-old Phaedra - had allowed her to achieve a new understanding of the world, she said: 'I'm not sure I've yet fully made peace with my childhood, but with my mum I have come to terms with everything. 'There are so many parallels between us. Now I can understand everything. I think you have to experience hardships and pain yourself to fully understand people who have been through it and also you can never really experience happiness unless you've had that down feeling too.' She added: 'The way I've been raising them (her sons) is with pure love. I just have a lot of hopes for them, and I hope when they're older they get to have a bit of the youth that I lost out on when I had them. Now I am a mum, I can correct those awful parts of my childhood and it's a really healing process. 'Before, I was not at peace with myself about it because I was just traumatised. That's why I was living a chaotic lifestyle. But now I have the kids I can heal the situation. It's so good in every single way, really.'



