Peaches Geldof’s baby son Phaedra was alone for 17 hours with his mother’s dead body in their country home before husband Thomas Cohen rushed to her side to find her dead.
A London inquest into Peaches Geldof’s death has confirmed that it was a heroin overdose that killed the 25-year-old model and TV presenter. As part of the inquiry, the Gravesend Coroner’s Court heard that she was a full-blown heroin addict at the time of her death, who had been on methadone for two years.
The court heard that Peaches hid drugs around the family home that she shared with her husband Thomas and two sons: Astala, two and Phaedra, aged one. Thomas said that he had witnessed her flushing drugs down the toilet that she had hidden in the loft of their home in Kent.
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The coroner found that the young mother died at 8pm on Saturday April 5th – just two hours after speaking to Thomas. She was not found until 1.30pm the following day when Thomas rushed to his wife’s side after failing to get hold of her. Son Phaedra was in another room.
Musician Thomas told the inquiry of his wife’s two year struggle with heroin addiction. The mother of two had been on a two year drug treatment program and had been taking heroin-substitute methadone.
In spite of this though, Thomas told the court that she began using heroin again in February this year, hiding it around the house and repeatedly trying to hide the results of failed drug tests from her husband.
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Sadly, it is therefore confirmed that Peaches, the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, who also died of a heroin overdose in 2000 has met the same tragic end as her mother.
A London inquest into Peaches Geldof’s death has heard that her baby son Phaedra was alone for 17 hours with his mother’s dead body in their country home before husband Thomas Cohen rushed to her side to find her dead.
Sadly, it is therefore confirmed that Peaches, the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, who also died of a heroin overdose in 2000 has met the same tragic end as her mother.
Peaches was a young mother, who left behind husband Thomas Cohen and two young children: Astala, aged two and Phaedra, aged one.
Pictured with her husband Thomas on their wedding day, he has vowed to bring up the couples two children with their mother in their hearts everyday.
Peaches was an adoring mother who loved nothing more than to post pictures of her with her young family on Instagram and Twitter.
Peaches will be dearly missed by her whole family including father Bob Geldof and sisters Pixie (pictured, right), Tiger Lily and Fifi Trixibelle.
