LAHORE, Feb 4: The Scotland Yard team probing into the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto is expected to return by the end of this week.

A source privy to the investigations said on Monday: “The British investigators will present their findings about the evidences they had collected to the joint investigation team of Pakistan.”

He said the British team would use its findings to re-enact the incident outside the Liaquat Bagh in Ralwapindi where Ms Bhutto was assassinated on Dec 27.

The source said the British investigators wanted to know why the crime scene had been washed in a hurry, which was viewed by many, especially PPP leaders, as an attempt to destroy some important evidence.

The source contradicted a statement earlier issued by the interior ministry saying that the British team was ‘free to investigate’ the case in any manner and that it was depending on the British team to ‘unveil people involved in Ms Bhutto’s assassination’ and insisted that the Scotland Yard investigators had been mandated only to ‘determine the cause of her death’.

The sources said it was not yet known if the government would allow them to take part in the interrogation of suspects held in connection with the murder.

The ministry had also said that it had asked the team to complete the probe before the Feb 18 polls.