Peaches Geldof died of an overdose, inquest told
The 25-year-old journalist, model and television presenter had been taking the substitute drug methadone in the two and a half years before she died.
But by February this year the mother-of-two had started using again, her musician husband Tom Cohen told an inquest in Gravesend, Kent.
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Hide AdMr Cohen found her slumped on a bed in a spare room at their family home in Wrotham, Kent, on April 7 this year.
Police later found 6.9g (0.24oz) of “importation quality” heroin stashed in a black cloth bag inside a cupboard over a bedroom door with a purity of 61%, worth between £350 and £550.
They also discovered a syringe containing residue of heroin inside a sweet box next to the bed, and other drug paraphernalia including burnt spoons, syringes and knotted tights throughout the property.