November 23, 2007	Friday	Ziqa’ad 12, 1428

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Nov 22: A coroner’s inquest into the death of cricket coach Bob Woolmer ended on Wednesday after hearing testimony from more than 50 people over five weeks.

The 11-member jury is expected to determine by Friday whether anyone bears responsibility for the death of the 58-year-old coach, who was found unconscious in his hotel room March 18, a day after his team Pakistan were ousted from the World Cup.

Police said it would be up to Jamaica’s coroner, Patrick Murphy, to issue the official cause of death after the jury’s verdict is announced.

Days after Woolmer died at a hospital, Jamaica’s pathologist, Dr Ere Sheshiah, ruled he had been strangled, launching a globe-spanning homicide probe.

In an embarrassing reversal, Jamaican police announced nearly three months after launching the murder investigation that Woolmer was not the victim of foul play.

The lead police investigator into the death of Woolmer, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields, has testified that there was no evidence of match-fixing after the Pakistan squad suffered an upset elimination at cricket’s biggest tournament.—AP