A report in today's London Times has backed claims at the weekend that a Home Office pathologist has concluded Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not murdered.
Reports from the post-mortem, photographs and other material have been examined by Dr Nat Carey, the pathologist who examined the bodies in the Soham murder case.
The original post-mortem, carried out in Jamaica, decided that strangulation was possible because a bone on Woolmer's neck had been broken.
Police are reported to be waiting for the results of a toxicology report after traces of a herbicide were found in Woolmer's body. The chemical is sometimes used on cricket pitches as a weedkiller, and one theory is that he might have accidentally ingested it. The report will show if the level of the toxin were suspiciously high or whether they could have built up over a period of time.
The Times noted that the herbicide can cause sickness and diarrhea, both of which Woolmer suffered on the night he died. The broken bone could have been the result of a fall as he collapsed in his hotel bathroom.
The report also claimed that the possibility that he was attacked by a disgruntled fan or player have been ruled out.
There were also criticisms of the handling of the investigation by the Jamaica police, with delays in retrieving and examining the CCTV, a failure to take swabs from Woolmer's hands and body, and the fact that the body was embalmed within hours of the post mortem.
The Jamaica Gleaner published a hard-hitting editorial on Tuesday in which the local police were openly slammed. "The now-it-is-now-it-isn't spectacle being played out in the international media over Woolmer's death must be particularly upsetting to his family and makes Jamaica's constabulary appear a bunch of incompetent boobs. It couldn't hurt the investigation, we feel, to publish the pathology report so as to clear the air. There should also be some official statement why the scheduled coroner's inquest appears to have been postponed indefinitely."
RE:Scotland yard? worlds no.1 police??
by Yasmin Bhat on May 15, 2007 10:14 AM
Well...vomiting can occur in heart attacks too..but yes, the rest of the circumstances do not point to a natural death. It is increasingly looking like a coverup.
Shoaib Malik carries a bowling action that keeps coming under suspicion and for long he has been shielded by the team management by not allowing him to bowl too many overs. His place in the team, as such, had remained under a cloud prior to his appointment as captain. He has also been convicted for having deliberately thrown a match on the domestic circuit, which is a crime in sports by all definitions. You play to win, not to lose. And if you are playing to lose, there has to be something fishy. But now he is a national captain.
I believe the Scotland yard and the so called Paki "investigators" are well aware that the Woolmer was murdered by some rogue members of Paki team including the assitant coach Mushtaq and manager Talat Ali. One must understand the consequences of letting this cat out of the bag. England has very strong expatriat Paki population and UK security officials are well aware of the threat posed to the common public in UK by religious fanatics operating there. Remember the 7/7 bombings in London tubes and buses which were carried out by Pakis and a JAMAICAN muslim convert??? If Scotland Yard sqaurely puts the blame on Pakis then the possibility of a backlash from Paki terrorists attacking England again grows exponentially. Some of you may wonder what has "religious fanaticism" or terrorism got to do with Bob Woolmer's death?? This may help "A Paki went to bed at night and when he woke up in the morning the pant he was wearing was full of shit. He then went around the city and asked everyone who came and shit in his pants at night??" Read between the lines you may find out what I am trying to say here....
I believe the Scotland yard and the so called Paki "investigators" are well aware that the Woolmer was murdered by some rogue members of Paki team including the assitant coach Mushtaq and manager Talat Ali. One must understand the consequences of letting this cat out of the bag. England has very strong expatriat Paki population and UK security officials are well aware of the threat posed to the common public in UK by religious fanatics operating there. Remember the 7/7 bombings in London tubes and buses which were carried out by Pakis and a JAMAICAN muslim convert??? If Scotland Yard sqaurely puts the blame on Pakis then the possibility of a backlash from Paki terrorists attacking England again grows exponentially. Some of you may wonder what has "religious fanaticism" or terrorism got to do with Bob Woolmer's death?? This may help "A Paki went to bed at night and when he woke up in the morning the pant he was wearing was full of shit. He then went around the city and asked everyone who came and shit in his pants at night??" Read between the lines you may find out what I am trying to say here....
The way this case has been handled right from day one shows the amount of Corruption involved.
Had this happened in any of the Sub continent countries it would have been blown out of proportion. Its been so long and still the argument is whether it was a natural death Or Murder, speaks volumes about the nature of investigations. Somehow, it is very clear that the truth will never come out.
