Peaches Geldof: Police Heroin Inquiry Ends

Police have ended their hunt for the drug dealer who supplied Peaches Geldof with the heroin that killed her.

Fifteen months after the 25-year-old journalist, model and television presenter died, detectives say they have "exhausted all lines of inquiry".

The mother-of-two was found slumped on a bed by her musician husband Tom Cohen after taking a fatal overdose at their home in Wrotham, Kent, on 7 April, 2014.

Detective Superintendent Paul Fotheringham, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, said: "Our investigation into the supply of drugs to Peaches Geldof-Cohen has exhausted all lines of inquiry and has now concluded.

"If further information or witnesses come forward we will review the case, but I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Peaches' family who have supported our inquiries during what has been a difficult time."

Police found 6.9g (0.24oz) of "importation quality" heroin hidden inside a black cloth bag inside a cupboard which had a purity of 61% and was worth between £350 and £550.

They also discovered a syringe containing residue of heroin inside a sweet box next to the bed, and other drugs paraphernalia including burnt spoons, syringes and knotted tights throughout the property.

At the inquest, North West Kent Coroner Roger Hatch said Ms Geldof's death had been "drugs-related" and heroin had played a part.

Mr Cohen told the inquest that he had gone to stay with his parents in southeast London with the couple's two sons, Astala, two, and one-year-old Phaedra, in the days leading up to his wife's death.

She had seemed fine when he spoke to her on several occasions over the weekend, he told the inquest.

His father, Keith, had seen Ms Geldof when he dropped the younger child home to her and did not notice anything amiss.

Mr Cohen said he had last spoken to his wife at 5.40pm on Sunday 6 April but, after failing to get hold of her the next day, he and his mother returned to the property with Astala and found Ms Geldof's body.

Ms Geldof's mother Paula Yates was also found dead from a heroin overdose at her London home in September 2000 in what a coroner at the time described as "foolish and incautious" behaviour.

In a television interview last year, Ms Geldof's father, Sir Bob Geldof, said he "blames himself" for her death, saying: "You're the father who is responsible and clearly failed."

Sir Bob, the lead singer with the Boomtown Rats and noted anti-poverty campaigner, added: "For anybody watching, who has a dead kid and you're a parent. You go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go over, you go over.

"What could you have done? You do as much as you can."