Woolmer's friend suspect that it may have been sent by his murderers as the language in the mail was not familiar to what the late coach used.
LONDON: Bob Woolmer's last email before his murder is set to become the focus of police investigations after friends of the Pakistan cricket coach expressed suspicion that it may have been sent by his killers to cover their tracks.
According to a report in 'The Sunday Telegraph', the Jamaican police is "very interested" in the email, which was Woolmer's resignation from the post of Pakistan coach sent to the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Nasim Ashraf.
Woolmer's friend suspect that it may have been sent by his murderers as the language in the mail was not familiar to what the late coach used.
In a part of the e-mail, Woolmer reportedly wrote, "I would like to praise my association with the Pakistan team but now I would like to announce my retirement after the World Cup, to live the rest of my life in Cape Town. I have no lust for the job and I will not like others to make personal remarks at me."
His friends say the wording was clearly not of someone whose first language was English.
"I have received hundreds of emails from him over the years and this is not his style - not the sort of words and phrases that he would use," a South African journalist Neil Manthorp, also a close friend of Woolmer, said.
Former Australian captain Ian Chappell echoed the view and said, "I can't believe it was written by a man whose first language was English."
The email was reportedly sent around 0600 hrs on March 18, just hours before Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room after Pakistan's shocking first-round exit from the World Cup.
Meanwhile, Jamaica's deputy commissioner of police Mark Sields, who is heading the investigations into the murder, flew to Cape Town to meet Woolmer's widow Gill, who is also "deeply dismissive" about the authenticity of the e-mail.
The investigators are also planning to meet the late coach's doctors to get details of his medical history. Woolmer was a diabetic and also had breathing problems.
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