25-year-old socialite found dead on April 7th may be due to heroin overdose.
The TV presenter and famed daughter of Live Aid’s Bob Geldof tragically died on the 7th of April this year, but toxicology reports remained inconclusive until earlier today when a coroner had finally ruled that the 25-year-old socialite died of a heroin overdose.
Peaches Geldof had declared herself free from the intoxicating drug two and a half years ago and has said to have remained clean since. It is therefore believed that her death was due to an overdose after being clean from the drug for a long period of time, relying on the still controversial ‘sister’ drug methadone.
The inquiry into her death appears misleading as the BBC reports that the heroin was ‘likely’ to have caused her death despite original claims that her passing was being treated as ‘non-suspicious but unexplained and sudden.’
The BBC reported that police found 6.9g of heroin in her house as well as several burnt spoons. Her husband, musician Tom Cohen, admitted to the hearing that Peaches had begun to take the drug again around February this year, as well as witnessing her flushing drugs down the toilet. Cohen claimed that he was not aware that Peaches had stashed so much of the drug in their home until the police released their findings, and he realises now that Peaches had been lying about weekly drug tests she was to undergo as part of her rehabilitation.
It was Cohen himself who found Peaches dead in their home in Wrotham, Kent, in scenes which mimicked her mother, Paula Yates, passing in 2000. Police state that the heroin used by Mrs Geldof was 61% pure which soars above the 21% purity usually found on ‘street level’ which has been described as a ‘fatal range’.
As tolerance to heroin is said to decrease rapidly after withdrawal from the drug, it is likely that this may be the main factor in Peaches death, as well as levels of codeine, methadone and morphine. However coroners report it is not likely that Peaches intended on suicide, rather it is a tragic loss due to another easily avoidable overdose of a beloved daughter, wife and mother.
