Detectives are hunting for the drug dealer who supplied heroin to Peaches Geldof
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It came following the opening day of the inquest into her death, which heard how her husband Tom Cohen found Peaches dead in a spare room at their home with the Class A drug in her system.
The former singer discovered the mother of their two children slumped forward across the edge of a bed
, with one leg tucked underneath her and the other hanging down to the floor.
A coroner was also told how the heroin was “likely” to have played a part in the 25-year-old’s death.
Police are expected to speak to Tom, 23, and others in Peaches’ close circle as part of their investigation into who passed the drugs over and when.
They will also look at whether the couple’s £1million house in Wrotham, Kent, was cleaned up before officers arrived on the day she died last month.
Kent Police said there was no evidence of drugs paraphernalia found at the scene.
They searched the home for two days and used specialist sniffer dogs.
A Kent Police spokesman said: “We can confirm an ongoing investigation into the supply of drugs in connection with the death of Peaches Geldof.”
The force refused to confirm if Tom or anyone else had already been spoken to, saying there had been “no arrests and no interviews under caution”.
DCI Paul Fotheringham, of Kent Police, told the inquest: “A postmortem was carried out by a forensic pathologist and the initial results were inconclusive.
“Forensic samples were obtained and the results concluded the recent use of heroin and that the levels identified were likely to have played a role in her death.”
Peaches admitted in the weeks before the tragedy how she was “obsessed” with heroin addict singer Elliott Smith.
Writing to fans on an online blog she described Smith – who died in a suspected suicide – as her “kindred spirit”.
Talking about one of his songs, Peaches said: “He speaks as someone who understands depression and drug abuse, someone who lives with it every day, sarcastically praising his sober and mostly happy friends for their failed mission to save him from something they could never understand.”
Two weeks before her death she uploaded a picture of a book about Smith – titled Torment Saint.
The American singer died in 2003 aged 34 and is thought to have committed suicide by stabbing himself through the heart.
He endured years of mental illness and repeatedly battled drink and drug addictions.
Only three weeks before she was found dead, Peaches – Sir Bob Geldof’s daughter – posted a screenshot of her 25 most played songs.
Every single track was by Smith.
She wrote: “Note to self – maybe consider listening to some other musicians…”
In another post she added: “Maybe I should just call my blog ‘f*****g obsessed with Elliott Smith mumblog’.”
One of Smith’s songs was reportedly played at Peaches’ funeral, which took place in the same church as that of her mother Paula Yates who died when she was 41
from a heroin overdose in 2000, when Peaches was just 11.
In recent years, Peaches tried to distance herself from her wild-child past and denied using drugs.
An American blogger claimed in 2010 he had stayed up all night with Peaches taking heroin and posting naked pictures of the then-21-year-old.
At the time her lawyer said: “The allegations our client was carrying and injecting heroin are denied, our client having consumed alcohol with the other individual leading to the ‘highs’ described and portrayed in the photographs.”
And when drugs rumours surfaced again a year later, a newly-skinny Peaches hit out: “I’m not on drugs.
“If people feel the need to validate my weight loss by saying I’m on drugs then shame on them.
“I’ve changed my diet and the way I live. That’s it.”
During the five-minute hearing, coroner Roger Hatch heard brief details of Peaches’ final few days before her death on April 7.
The grand chamber at Gravesend Old Town Hall, Kent, heard Tom took the couple’s two boys, 11-month-old Phaedra and two-year-old Astala, to stay with his parents in South East London on April 3.
DCI Fotheringham said: “This is a normal occurrence which enables Peaches and Thomas to complete work in their respective careers.”
The model and journalist spoke to her husband, family and friends on the phone over the following days before Tom’s dad, Keith, took Phaedra back home at around 5pm on Sunday.
Mr Fotheringham said Peaches “seemed her normal self” and had been planning a family outing for the following weekend.
“To all her friends and family there was no cause for any concern,” he said.
The last known contact she had was a call to a friend on Sunday evening.
On Monday morning, Tom – a former singer with the rock band S.C.U.M – tried without success to call his wife.
Worried, he and his mother, Sue, went to the couple’s home and found Peaches dead.
Mr Fotheringham said: “Thomas entered the property and went upstairs, thinking she was sleeping.
“He found her in a spare bedroom. It was obvious to him she was deceased. She was located on the edge of the bed with one leg hanging down to the floor and the other leg tucked underneath her.
“She was slumped forward across the bed.”
Phaedra was found elsewhere in the house, the inquest heard.
Police started an investigation but the death was “unexplained with no third party” involvement
. Mr Hatch adjourned the inquest.
A full hearing will take place on July 23. No one from the Geldof family attended the hearing.