KINGSTON, March 21: A police investigation into the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer continued on Wednesday while the team was playing its last World Cup match. Jamaica’s deputy police commissioner Mark Shields said the death was being treated as suspicious. A 10-man forensics team was working in the 12th-floor room of a Jamaica hotel where Woolmer died, though authorities have said nothing points to homicide.
An ex-Pakistan test player speculated about murder plot and a Pakistan team official said there was blood and vomit in the room and Woolmer was found by hotel staff on the floor with his mouth wide open.
Woolmer was pronounced dead on Sunday after being transferred to hospital, a day after Pakistan had slumped out of contention at the World Cup on an upset loss to Ireland.
“There is no evidence it’s a homicide but we’re waiting for further information from the pathologist before make any more statements,” Shields told The Associated Press on Wednesday. At a late-night news conference on Tuesday at the team’s hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, Shield said reports from a pathologist and other medical experts gave police “sufficient information to continue a full investigation into the death of Mr Woolmer, which we are now treating as suspicious”.
“We have already informed the Woolmer family of this development and we are also in close contact with the Pakistan team management, Cricket World Cup and ICC to ensure all parties are kept informed of the ongoing investigation.”
Shields had earlier announced that the findings of a post mortem had been inconclusive.—AP
