The pathologist who ruled the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer a homicide is standing by his report despite a contradictory conclusion by three other doctors and police, a Jamaican newspaper reported on Wednesday. “I am sticking to my findings. He was murdered,” Dr Ere Seshaiah told The Jamaica Observer. Police relied on Seshaiah’s autopsy in March when they announced Woolmer, 58, had been strangled in his hotel room a day after Pakistan was ousted from the Cricket World Cup. The announcement shocked the cricket world and triggered a high-profile homicide investigation. But on Tuesday Jamaican police said three independent pathologists from Britain, South Africa and Canada determined that Woolmer died of natural causes, and closed the murder probe.
Seshaiah told the Observer he is confident the coach was slain. “Woolmer is not a first for me,” he said. “I have been doing autopsies here since 1995.” An opposition lawmaker called for Seshaiah to be fired. “He led the investigation team down a wrong path,” Derrick Smith said in a television interview outside parliament. “Now that we have found out that he has made an error, he should be terminated.”