Peaches Geldof post-mortem inconclusive, police say

[April 09, 2014]  LONDON (Reuters) — A post-mortem examination on Peaches Geldof, the second daughter of Band Aid founder and musician Bob Geldof, who was found dead in her British home two days ago, has proved inconclusive "pending toxicology tests", police said on Wednesday.

Geldof, 25, a media and fashion personality in her own right, was found dead at her home in Wrotham, Kent, in southern England, on Monday.

Kent Police said they are treating it as a "non-suspicious but unexplained sudden death" but added investigations would continue into the circumstances surrounding the incident following the inconclusive post-mortem.

"The result of a toxicology report can take several weeks," police said in a statement.

After her death, Bob Geldof, the Irish singer who rose to prominence as the leader of the 1970s-1980s band the Boomtown Rats, and later organized the charity Band Aid and the Live Aid concerts to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, said his family were "beyond pain".

(Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by Stephen Addison)

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