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India-Pakistan
Cricket coach Woolmer 'poisoned': murder most foul
2007-04-30
Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer, who died of strangulation earlier this year, was also poisoned, a BBC investigation has learned.
The gun shots might have contributed something, too...
The results of toxicology tests mean it now seems certain the ex-England player was rendered helpless before being strangled, the Panorama programme says.
After which he was apparently flung from a 21st story window...
Which is an odd thing in itself as the hotel has only eighteen stories...
On 20 April the inquest into the death was postponed because the coroner was advised there had been "recent and significant developments".
Caught the driver of the truck that ran him over, did they?
Now a Panorama investigation has learned that a toxicology report on Woolmer's body shows that there was a drug in his body that would have incapacitated him.
They've found the puncture wound from the dart. Now, if they can just tie it to the blowgun...
The final results of the report are due to be lost by given to Jamaican police next week. "Those tests will show there was a drug in his system that would have incapacitated Mr Woolmer," Panorama's Adam Parsons says. "The specific details of that poison are now very likely to offer a significant lead to finding his murderer."
"It's iocaine powder! I'd bet my life on it!"
The policeman leading the murder investigation, Mark Shields, told Panorama that it is "difficult and it's rare" for one man to strangle another. "A lot of force would be needed to do that. Bob Woolmer was a large man and that's why one could argue that it was an extremely strong person or maybe more than one person. But equally the lack of external injuries suggests that there might be some other factors and that's what we're looking into at the moment."
"One theory is that the knife between his shoulder blades might have been related to his demise. Now, if we could just figure how...!"
Posted by:Seafarious

#8  You know, I think they may be onto something.
bigjim-
I agree. Early reports had blood, feces, and vomit splattered fairly high up on the wall, if I recall, and I thought it sounded like a brutal beating from someone quite large. Strangulation is anticlimatic and maybe to hasten death so the perp could flee.
Posted by: Danielle   2007-04-30 18:45  

#7  A South African coach murdered in Jamaica, located between Venezuela, and Cuba, angry extremist Pakistani cricket players, rumors of a nefarious gambling ring and threats to the family, and a radical Jamaican Muslim convert just charged with terrorism in London...it's an intriguing plot line worthy of an Agatha Christie novel. PBS won't pick it up, as they have refused to even show the new documentary on Islamists.
Posted by: Danielle   2007-04-30 18:39  

#6  Well, I for one am just shocked!

Hooda thunk it?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-04-30 12:43  

#5  You know, I think they may be onto something. A professional athlete, even a retired one, would be the last person I'd try to throttle to death by myself.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-04-30 09:03  

#4  After which he was apparently flung from a 21st story window...

Which is an odd thing in itself as the hotel has only eighteen stories...


Police defectives are now tracing all rentals of scissor lifts or tall ladders.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-30 02:43  

#3  Might as well solve it on PBS. They certainly won't solve it in Jamaica.

whom done it?

May I suggest using the Crack Forensic Laboratory Services of Aruba.
Posted by: RD   2007-04-30 02:00  

#2  
Might as well solve it on PBS. They certainly won't solve it in Jamaica.

:(
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-04-30 00:45  

#1  Miss Marple or Sherlock or Perot or Ellery Queen > whom solve this dastardly whodunnit on A&E = Masterpiece Theater.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-04-30 00:36  

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