Police end investigation into Peaches Geldof death

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The identity of the drug dealer who supplied Peaches Geldof with the heroin that killed her could remain a mystery after detectives announced they have ended their investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police said they had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;exhausted all lines of inquiry” 15 months after the 25-year-old journalist&comma; model and television presenter took a fatal overdose of the Class A drug&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mother-of-two Ms Geldof was found slumped on a bed in a spare room by her musician husband Tom Cohen at their family home in Wrotham&comma; Kent&comma; on April 7&comma; 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Detective Superintendent Paul Fotheringham&comma; of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our investigation into the supply of drugs to Peaches Geldof-Cohen has exhausted all lines of inquiry and has now concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If further information or witnesses come forward we will review the case&comma; 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&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police found 6&period;9g &lpar;0&period;24oz&rpar; of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;importation quality” heroin stashed in a black cloth bag inside a cupboard over a bedroom door with a purity of 61&percnt;&comma; worth between £350 and £550&comma; her inquest heard&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;PeachesGeldofFebruary2014&lowbar;large&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;PeachesGeldofFebruary2014&lowbar;large&period;jpg" alt&equals;"PeachesGeldofFebruary2014&lowbar;large" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-76680" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also discovered a syringe containing residue of heroin inside a sweet box next to the bed&comma; and other drugs paraphernalia including burnt spoons&comma; syringes and knotted tights throughout the property&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the inquest&comma; North West Kent Coroner Roger Hatch said Ms Geldof’s death had been &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;drugs-related” and heroin had played a part&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He told the hearing that&comma; although she had struggled to come off methadone&comma; by November 2013 she was found to be free of heroin and reducing her methadone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Cohen told the inquest that he had gone to stay with his parents in south-east London with the couple’s two sons&comma; Astala&comma; two&comma; and one-year-old Phaedra&comma; in the days leading up to his wife’s death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She had seemed fine when he spoke to her on several occasions over the weekend&comma; he told the inquest&period; His father&comma; Keith&comma; had seen Ms Geldof when he dropped the younger child home to her and did not notice anything amiss&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Cohen said he had last spoken to his wife at 5&period;40pm on Sunday April 6 but&comma; after failing to get hold of her the next day&comma; he and his mother returned to the property with Astala and found Ms Geldof’s body&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her last known movements included posting a picture of herself with her mother Paula Yates on social networking site Instagram with the comment &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;me and my mum” and watching The Dog Whisperer TV show on YouTube&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>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 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;foolish and incautious” behaviour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pathologist Peter Jerreat said at the inquest that evidence of injections had been found on Ms Geldof’s body during a post-mortem examination carried out on April 9&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were puncture marks on her elbow and left hand and she had died of an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;opiate intoxication” due to a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fatal level of heroin in the body”&comma; the pathologist found&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a television interview last year&comma; Ms Geldof’s father&comma; Sir Bob Geldof&comma; said he &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;blames himself” for her death&comma; saying&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You’re the father who is responsible and clearly failed&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sir Bob&comma; the lead singer with the Boomtown Rats and noted anti-poverty campaigner&comma; added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For anybody watching&comma; who has a dead kid and you’re a parent&period; You go back&comma; you go back&comma; you go back&comma; you go back&comma; you go back&comma; you go over&comma; you go over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What could you have done&quest; You do as much as you can&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2c12d38ec">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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