A top British Home Office pathologist has concluded that the Pakistan cricket coach was not strangled, leading daily Times of London reported on Monday.
LONDON: A top British Home Office pathologist has concluded that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not strangled, leading daily Times of London reported on Monday.
Reports from the post-mortem, photographs and other material have been examined by Dr Nat Carey who has concluded the death was not from asphyxiation due to strangulation, the newspaper said quoting unidentified sources.
The original post-mortem in Jamaica had concluded that strangulation of 58-year-old Woolmer was possible becuase a bone on his neck had been broken.
Woolmer was found dead on March 18 in his suite at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston the day after Pakistan crashed to a shock defeat to minnows Ireland in last month's World Cup cricket in the West Indies.
A full-scale inquiry was launched after a post-mortem in Kingston. Detectives questioned the Pakistani team amidst a number of theories about motives behind his possible killing including attempts by match-fixers to silence the coach.
Senior Jamaican police officer Mark Shields was in London last week talking to Scotland Yard which sent out a team to help the Jamaicans and review the case and also scientists who were asked to look at samples taken from the coach's body.
Police are now waiting for the results of a toxicology report after traces of a herbicide were found in Woolmer's body.
Jamaican newspaper Gleaner had on Sunday quoted its sources in London as saying that "the Scotland Yard report specifically said Woolmer died of heart failure, contradicting earlier reports by the investigative arm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and local pathologist Dr Ere Seshiah, who had conducted a post-mortem on Woolmers's body".
Earlier the Jamaican Police stuck to its stance that the former Pakistan cricket coach had been murdered in his Kingston hotel during the World Cup, dismissing Woolmer's 'natural death' theory as a media speculation.
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