The recent news of the coroner assigned in the inquest regarding the circumstances surrounding the unexpected death of British personality Peaches Geldof was a major blow to her loved ones. The 25 year-old married mother of two children was declared to have succumbed to death due to a fatal does of high-purity heroin in April inside the home she shared with her rocker husband Thomas Cohen and their two sons, New York Daily News reported. It could be recalled that her mother, the late television presenter Paula Yates, died in a similar fate.
It has been reported that the model daughter of Live Aid founder Bob Geldof was found by Cohen at a spare bedroom on April 7. Cohen also said at his wife's inquest that he began to suspect that Peaches had returned to her drug habit after two years of going cold turkey. Geldof reportedly took methadone to control her drug cravings. However, the alluring power of drugs might have compelled Geldof, who was at the time of her death, at the peak of her career as a multi-slasher--journalist, television presenter and model. Cohen and one of their children returned to their million-dollar home in Kent on that day and had found Geldof in her state, with the couple's infant crawling in a separate bedroom.
Cohen also detailed his frustration to catch his wife on the act or find evidence that she had returned to her drug habit, Daily News said. At the inquest, Cohen recalled that the couple had a discussion in February about her addiction, with him confronting his wife about taking drugs she had hidden in the loft of their shared home. He later flushed the drugs down the toilet. The musician also shared that he searched their house in vain for evidence of her drug habit, and was told by Geldof that her weekly drug tests were all negative.
British papers had said that officers have found a total of 79 syringes and hundreds of dollars worth of extremely powerful heroin in the couple's home. A forensic scientist was quoted as saying that the drugs found had a purity percentage of 61%, which is much higher than the average drug that is being sold in the streets.
