KINGSTON, March 27: Jamaican police issued another appeal for witnesses in the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer on Tuesday and offered a 24-hour hotline for people who might have clues to help solve the mystery.
Nine days after the killing, Jamaica’s deputy police commissioner Mark Shields said there were no significant developments and no clear suspects in the strangulation murder of one of the world’s best-known cricket coaches.
He said police were looking for `people who may have heard something or seen something within the hotel that raised their suspicions, which so far they haven't come forward with.
The important thing is that we get to those people and give them the opportunity to come forward and talk to us.
Shields has said the probe was complicated by the departure from Jamaica of players participating in the World Cup tournament, as well as officials and fans who packed Kingston's Pegasus Hotel, where Woolmer was found unconscious in his room on March 18. He was pronounced dead in hospital.
The international phone line 1-876-927-5000, would be operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, he said.
If you don’t want to phone an international number, call your local police if you're now back at home in your own country or you've moved on, in an effort to contact us, and the message will come through to me, added Shields.
Police are trying to establish the movements of everyone who was in the hotel during the time Woolmer was killed, between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
Shields said police had still not received toxicology and other test results on Woolmer's body. —Reuters
