Reports confirm Geldof’s heroin death

Heroin is "likely" to have contributed to the death of Peaches Geldof, a senior police officer has revealed.

Toxicology reports of the 25-year-old star – who was found dead at her home in England, on 7 April – have now confirmed she had the drug in her system.

At a brief inquest in Gravesend, Kent, on 1 April, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham, told the hearing: "Results concluded there was recent use of heroin and the levels identified were likely to have played a role in her death."

Police are now conducting an on-going investigation into how the Peaches got hold of the substance.

The hearing was told that Peaches’ husband Thomas Cohen found her "slumped" over the bed, with one leg on the floor, of the spare room at their home address.

The musician had been spending the weekend prior to her death at his parents’ home in south east London with their eldest son Astala (2) but he returned to Kent with his mother after he failed to get in touch with his wife.

Paramedics pronounced Peaches dead at the scene, and police began the investigation but were treating the death as "unexplained with no third party involved".

The inquest also heard that Peaches’ father Sir Bob Geldof formally identified her body.

An autopsy carried out by a Home Office Pathologist shortly after her death proved inconclusive.

The hearing was adjourned until 23 July.

Meanwhile, Peaches was laid to rest at St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church in Davington, Kent, where her late mother Paula Yates’ funeral took place in 2000.

Yates died from an accidental heroin overdose 14 years ago at the age of 41.