'No drugs and no suicide note,' Police say death of Peaches Geldof at 25 is not suspicious as father Bob pays heart-breaking tribute to 'the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of us all'



Officers found 'no hard drugs, no suicide note, no visible signs of injury', it has been claimed

Peaches Geldof, 25, found dead yesterday at her home in Wrotham, Kent

Kent Police called to house at 1.35pm, said death was 'sudden' and 'unexplained', not treating it as suspicious



She was the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and Paula Yates



The former wild child leaves her husband rock singer Thomas Cohen and their two sons Astala, 23 months, and Phaedra, who is almost one year old



Peaches lost her own mother to a drug overdose in September 2000 when she was just 11 years old



Her last tweet, posted on Sunday, was a picture of her as a baby in her mother's arms



In a heartbreaking statement, father Bob said: 'We are beyond pain'

Her husband said: 'We shall love her forever'



Officers searching Peaches Geldof's house last night after her tragic death found no evidence of hard drugs, no suicide note, and no visible signs of injury, it has been claimed.



The married mother of two young sons was found dead yesterday afternoon - just a few hours after she posted a picture of herself with her late mother Paula Yates on Instagram.

Police found the 25-year-old's body at home in Wrotham, Kent, at 1.35pm, and described the death as 'sudden' and 'unexplained'.



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Devoted: Peaches, who was found dead at the age of 25 yesterday, leaves behind two sons Astala Dylan Willow, 23 months, and Phaedra Bloom Forever, 11 months, who are days away from their birthdays

Last photo: This photo of Peaches in the arms of her late mother, Paula Yates, was the last she tweeted

Last night, it emerged the coroner is probing the possibility model and writer Peaches died of natural causes, according to The Sun.

Peaches's heartbroken father Bob Geldof led the tributes to his daughter who underwent a dramatic transformation from wild party child to earth mother over recent years.

In a heartbreaking statement, the 62-year-old said: 'Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.



'Writing 'was' destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?

'We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is.



'Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken. Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.'



Peaches often spoke of how she struggled to come to terms with her own mother’s death from a heroin overdose in 2000.

Her last tweet was at 10.17am on Sunday with a photograph of her and her late mother.

Today Sir Bob paid tribute to his 'beautiful child' Peaches and said 'we are beyond pain'

Close-knit family: Peaches, pictured here with her father Sir Bob in 2009 at Sir David Frost's garden party

'WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHILD': GELDOF'S TRIBUTE TO DAUGHTER

Sir Bob Geldof has paid an emotional tribute to his daughter Peaches who has died today, describing her as a 'beautiful child'.

Speaking minutes after her death was announced, the Boomtown Rats singer released a heartbreaking statement on behalf of the family.

He said: 'Peaches has died. We are beyond pain.

'Writing "was" destroys me afresh.

'She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.

'What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again?

'How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is.

'Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken. Bob, Jeanne, Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.'

Her husband Thomas Cohen said: 'My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts everyday. We shall love her forever. Thomas, Astala and Phaedra Geldof-Cohen.'



She was last seen at the F&F fashion show in London last Thursday evening.

A spokesman for Kent Police said: 'Police were called to an address in Wrotham, Kent, following reports concerning the welfare of a 25-year-old woman.



'The woman was pronounced dead at the scene by South East Coast Ambulance Service.

'At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained and sudden. They are now working to establish the circumstances surrounding the death.'

The death is not being treated as suspicious.



Peaches was the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and the granddaughter of Hughie Green. Her sisters are Fifi Trixibelle Geldof, 31, and Pixie Geldof, 23. She also has a younger half-sister, Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof, 17.

Miss Geldof – a one-time model and journalist - leaves behind two sons, Astala Dylan Willow, 23 months, and Phaedra Bloom Forever, who is almost a year old.



Phaedra was born on April 24, 2013, which would have been the 54th birthday of her mother.



She was married to Thomas Cohen, lead singer of the South East London band S.C.U.M.

She wed American rock singer Max Drummey in Las Vegas in August 2008, but they split in February 2009 and, in September 2012, she married London-based Cohen.



Peaches spoke in her last interview of how she owed her life to her children and said: ‘I am not about to let them down, not for anyone or anything.’



She said that becoming a mother had healed a ‘rudderless and troubled’ childhood, and that she wanted everyone to know parenthood was ‘the best thing you’ve ever done’.

The interview, less than a month before her death today, with Mother & Baby magazine was centred on ‘attachment parenting’ – keeping her two sons with her virtually all the time.



Peaches said she had cried with exhaustion and says that becoming a mother had ‘broken’ her.



She told how her own experience of attachment parenting from her nanny before the divorce of her mother Paula and father Bob ‘saved me from losing it’.

She was married to rock singer Thomas Cohen, pictured here with their sons in November 2013

She described ‘attachment parenting’ as responding to a baby's needs and building bonds through closeness and trust. And she said she received a great deal of help from Sue Cohen, mother of her husband, Tom.



‘Becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally,’ she said.

‘After years of struggling to know myself, feeling lost at sea, rudderless and troubled, having babies through which to correct the multiple mistakes of my own traumatic childhood was beyond healing.



‘I felt finally anchored in place, with lives that literally depend on me, and I am not about to let them down, not for anyone or anything.’

She had admitted she never really got over her parents' very public divorce in 1996, which became notoriously bitter, or her mother Paula's death just four years later in 2000.



She said: 'I remember the day my mother died, and it’s still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father’s mentality was "keep calm and carry on".

'So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn’t grieve. I didn’t cry at her funeral. I couldn’t express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn’t start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.'

Peaches was just six years old when Paula left the Boomtown Rats star for INXS singer Michael Hutchence. Talking to Elle magazine two years ago, she revealed the drastic change in her mother after the break-up.

She told the magazine: 'The transition of my mother who was amazing, who wrote books on parenting, who gave us this idyllic childhood in Kent; and who then turned into this heartbroken shell of a woman who was just medicating to get through the day.

'On top of that, there was my father who was very embittered and depressed about it and for us children, an environment that was impossible, veering between a week with my mother that was complete chaos, and then with my father, which was almost Dickensian – homework, dinner, bed – because he was trying in his own way to combat what was going on at my mother’s.'

A private ambulance arrives to take away the body of Peaches Geldof at her home in Kent

A private ambulance leaves the home of Peaches Geldof in Wrotham, Kent, who has died aged 25 A private ambulance arrives at the home of Peaches Geldof who was found dead today

At the scene: She was pronounced dead by South East Ambulance Service at her home in Wrotham

Police, medics, and forensics arrived at the property in Kent, South East England, at 1.35pm yesterday

In a statement, Kent Police described the death as 'sudden' and 'unexplained'

HOW MOTHERHOOD TRANSFORMED A PARTY GIRL INTO AN EARTH MOTHER If there was a celebrity party in London, at one time you could have guaranteed Peaches Geldof would be there.

The self-proclaimed party girl admitted that she never imagined she would be a mother by the age of 25, let alone one that went to bed by 8pm every night.

In June 2011, an inquest heard how Peaches' name appeared in the diary of 18-year-old Freddy McConnel, who died of a drug overdose.

The inquest heard how just a few months before his death, he wrote: 'Peaches is coming over later and I am going to inject for the first time. Perhaps I will die. I hope I don’t.'

She insisted she did not go to his flat on the night recorded in his diary.

But after having her two sons, the former London socialite happily admitted that her outlook on life and priorities had changed.

Following the birth of her first son Astala and marriage to her childhood friend and S.C.U.M singer Thomas 'Tom' Cohen in 2012, Peaches reinvented herself as an earth mother and outspoken journalist.

Speaking after his birth, she told Elle magazine: 'His birth was like a rebirth for me, and I honestly never thought anything in my life would ever be good. I’m obsessed with getting it right.

'The second I held him it was like this missing piece of my life being put into place; everything started to heal.'

She added: 'The very worst thing that happened to me started with my parents’ divorce, it really affected the rest of my life.

'Even if it’s an archaic idea I want Astala to have a mummy and daddy together for ever. It’s a commitment. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.'

She then had a second son, called Phaedra, with Cohen in April 2013.

The star said her offspring had given her stability after she struggled for many years to come to terms with her mother Paula's fatal overdose in 2000.

Peaches and her husband were also passionate advocates of 'attachment parenting' which promotes skin-to-skin contact with babies and young children and sleeping in the same bed.

Peaches admitted the style of parenting led to the couple sleeping in separate beds.

Originally the family all slept together in a large 9ft bed until Phaedra starting waking up in the middle of the night.

Then Peaches slept with Phaedra while Tom stayed with Astala.

The TV presenter said: 'It's not that great for our intimate life. It sounds really sad but it'll only be until Phaedra stops crying in the night.'

She continued: 'I'm in bed by 8pm nearly every night. This is not what I thought I'd be doing three years ago when I was the poster girl for partying in London.

'Before I was like an Iron Lady, very cynical. Now, I'm the soft, cheesy pizza lady. I feel like I grew up a lot when I had the children. it healed many things in me that were painful.'

Hutchence was found hanged in a hotel room in Sydney in 1997. Three years later Miss Yates died from an accidental heroin overdose.

Peaches went through a period of heavy drinking and taking drugs as a teenager, but said the memory of her own mother's overdose stopped her from spiralling out of control.



She admitted: 'I did experiment with drugs, I did get drunk and go to parties, but I was never that wild. I could have been, I could have let myself spiral but all the time I remembered what happened to my mum.'



Peaches, who lived her whole life under the media spotlight, faced allegations of shoplifting and drug taking during her partying heyday.

At just 19, she married musician Max Drummey in Las Vegas after a whirlwind romance. The pair split up six months later.



Peaches appeared to be following in her mother's destructive footsteps but turned over a new leaf when she married S.C.U.M singer Thomas Cohen in September 2012 at the same church in Davington where her parents married 26 years earlier.

Peaches underwent a further transformation following the birth of her first son Astala in April 2012 and appeared to immediately take to motherhood.



Speaking after his birth, she said: 'His birth was like a rebirth for me, and I honestly never thought anything in my life would ever be good. I’m obsessed with getting it right.



'The second I held him it was like this missing piece of my life being put into place; everything started to heal.'



She added: 'The very worst thing that happened to me started with my parents’ divorce, it really affected the rest of my life.



'Even if it’s an archaic idea I want Astala to have a mummy and daddy together for ever. It’s a commitment. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.'



She then had a second son, called Phaedra, with Cohen in April 2013.



Peaches then came into her own, becoming a well-known TV pundit and writer.

A prolific tweeter, she shared almost every aspect of her life with her children on social media.

She loved showing off her baby boys and two pet dogs to her 182,000 Twitter followers, and her recent messages posted on photo-sharing site Instagram gave no cause for concern.

On Sunday, she she posted an image of grinning Phaedra clutching a photograph as he sat on a bed strewn with Polaroids and other family snaps.

She said his favourite thing to do was look at old photos, describing her son as 'so cute'.

Shortly afterwards she uploaded another picture of Phaedra leaning against a pillow with a bowl of potato mash or porridge.

Writing from her son's perspective, she tweeted: 'Ugh...eating my dinner in bed is such hard work mama. #sob.'

Miss Geldof joined Twitter in 2009, and shared some 13,400 tweets with her followers over the next five years.

A few weeks before her death, Peaches had expressed concern that her home in Kent may be haunted.



The socialite shared a photo of herself and son Astala in the bath in December which appeared to show a translucent hand to the side of her neck.



She wrote next to the picture: 'And no that isn't my hand - one of mine was round his waist to hold him during the photo, the other holding the camera to take the shot. Also the hand is around my shoulder so totally weird angle if I did it myself. How terrifying!! (sic)'.



Peaches posted the spooky selfie on Instagram and told how she believed the hand belonged to the spirit of a woman who committed suicide nearly 100 years ago after delivering a stillborn baby.



She said: 'The house was built in the 1920s by a rich man and his pregnant wife.



'However, his wife had a stillborn baby and was so grief-stricken she went mad. She apparently drowned herself in the bath.'



Peaches claimed she often felt a ghostly presence in the house - but said it was a welcoming one rather than threatening.



She added: 'The presence I feel isn't malignant or angry, rather maternal and friendly - the house has a lovely atmosphere.



'Maybe she's just making her presence known because she loves having babies around.'

Three weeks ago she also uploaded an image of a book she was called Magick: In Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley.



He was an early 20th century writer and magician, who wrote about mysticism and paranormal beliefs.



Peaches even started to leave her door open when she slept at night in case the 'ghost comes back'.



This picture, taken at F&F fashion show on Thursday, is believed to be the last time Peaches was seen

Haunted house concerns: Peaches Geldof posted this picture of herself with her son Astala in the bath in December - with a ghostly hand apparently visible to the side of her neck Paranormal activity is clearly an interest to Peaches, who went on her own ghost hunting expedition with BBC Radio 1's Aled Jones for her short-lived TV series OMG! With Peaches Geldof. Peaches, who loved sharing images of her day-to-day life on Instagram and Twitter, also told her followers she was reading William Todd Schultz's Torment Saint: The Life of Elliot Smith.

The book is based on the musician, who died in 2003 of stab wounds following a battle with drug addiction.

Following his death a coroner could not say conclusively whether the wounds were self-inflicted and his fans have contested the circtumstances of his death ever since.



Drug allegations dogged Peaches throughout her teens and early twenties.



In June 2011, an inquest heard how Peaches' name appeared in the diary of an 18-year-old boy who died of a drug overdose.



Freddy McConnel had been found dead at his flat in London just two weeks earlier.



The inquest heard how just a few months before his death, he wrote: 'Peaches is coming over later and I am going to inject for the first time. Perhaps I will die. I hope I don’t.'



Freddy had formed a friendship with the then 22-year-old Peaches in the months before his death.



At that time, Peaches had long been linked to drugs.



In May 2008, she was questioned but not charged after being seen offering a drug pusher up to £190. Two months later, she was treated by paramedics after an overdose and was believed to have stopped breathing for several minutes until she was revived.



In August 2008, she admitted she took drugs, but insisted: ‘It’s something people go through in their lives, especially growing up in London.’



She later said the memory of her mother's overdose stop her from 'spiralling out of control'.



She insisted she did not go to his flat on the night recorded in his diary.