Heartless thieves have ransacked the England home of Peaches Geldof twice since her tragic death last month, and even stole the red, ride-on lawnmower that she and her rocker hubby used for a touching family photo not long before she died.
Geldof, 25, the daughter of Irish rocker Bob Geldof, was found dead April 7 in the house she shared with her husband and their two children in Wrotham, Kent.
Now, burglars have compounded the family’s grief, breaking in twice since Geldof’s death and damaging the property’s closed-circuit television cameras.
Among the items stolen from the $1.7 million home was a ride-on mower, on which Geldof posed for a photo with husband Thomas Cohen, 23, and their children, Phaedra and Astala.
Geldof’s dad had been planning to restore the mower in her memory, neighbors said.
“Bob wanted to keep it for sentimental reasons, but it was broken, so he asked someone to do it up,” a neighbor told the London Sun. “I spoke to the mechanic, but he said in the end they told him he couldn’t repair it as it had been stolen. It’s shocking to think someone would do that so soon after Peaches died.”
Geldof’s husband, meanwhile, is thinking about selling the house, sources told the newspaper.
He and his two sons have been staying with his mother.
“The house has been empty ever since Peaches died. The vultures who broke in clearly knew that and are preying on the bereaved and her family,” a source told the Sun.. “It’s a wicked thing to do given what Tom is going through at this time.”
Geldof, a model and television personality, used heroin shortly before her death last month and likely overdosed, according to UK authorities. But, mysteriously, cops found no drugs or paraphernalia in her home.