The controversy over the sudden death of the former Pakistan national cricket team coach Bob Woolmer drags on. More than seven months have passed since he was discovered dead in his Kingston hotel room on March 18 under suspicious circumstances, but it is yet to be ascertained whether the Englishman was really murdered or died due to cardiac arrest.
If Dr. Ere Shesiah is to be believed, then Woolmer was definitely murdered. Dr. Shesiah is the chief consultant pathologist of the Jamaican government and performed the autopsy on Woolmer. He is adamant on his stance that Woolmer was the victim of a ruthless murder.
Dr. Shesiah has always maintained that the then Pakistan national team coach was at first poisoned and then strangled to death. His refusal to admit any flaw in his autopsy procedure is remarkable when one considers that international pathologists testified against the autopsy results at the inquest.
The murder investigation was called off on June 12 and Woolmer was declared as the unfortunate victim of a cardiac arrest. But, the conspiracy theorists have declined to buy that reason. There are still many who firmly hold onto the idea that someone inside the Pakistan national team unit was responsible for Woolmer’s death.
Dr. Shesiah’s insistence that Woolmer was murdered adds much to the popular belief that the Jamaican police and the International Cricket Council contrived with each other to cover up the matter. The truth is that the suspicious circumstances of Woolmer’s death and the subsequent murky police investigations into the matter complicate the situation even more.
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Source: The Telegraph,UK
