Peaches Geldof died of a heroin overdose, it is expected to be announced today.
The results of a toxicology report will be announced by detectives in the morning, as an inquest into the mother-of-two’s death is expected to be opened and immediately adjourned.
The 25-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof was found dead at her country home earlier this month in what was described by police as a ‘non-suspicious’ and ‘sudden unexplained’ death.
The Times reports that police discovered no evidence of drugs paraphernalia in the house, triggering suspicions that the house may have been searched and items removed prior to their arrival.
Her 11-month-old son Phaedra was in the home with Peaches when she died.
In a tragic case of history repeating itself, Peaches’ own mother Paula Yates died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.
She too was alone with young daughter by Michael Hutchence, Tiger Lily, then aged four.
Hours before she died, Peaches is said to have posted a picture of herself as a young girl with her late mother.
Peaches had a long history of drug use. In May 2008, she was questioned but not charged after being seen offering a drug dealer up to £190.
Two months later, she was reportedly treated by paramedics after an overdose and was believed to have stopped breathing for several minutes until she was revived.
At the inquest into the death of her friend Freddy McConnel — who died from a drug overdose aged 18 in 2011 — it was revealed that he had planned to ‘inject’ for the first time during a visit by Peaches.
‘Peaches is coming over later and I am going to inject for the first time. Perhaps I will die. I hope I don’t,’ he wrote in his diary just months before his death.
A post mortem carried out by a Home Office Pathologist days after Peaches died proved inconclusive and samples of her blood and tissue were sent off to a laboratory to be tested for possible toxins, Daily Mail informs.
