Woolmer's CCTV footage showed scribes, not killers

Two persons seen alongside Pakistan's slain coach Bob Woolmer in his last CCTV footage were not his killers but actually two Pakistani journalists, it was revealed today.

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According to Pakistani channel Geo TV, one of the reporters was their correspondent Majid Bhatti of and the other was Ehsaan Qureshi, a journalist with the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).

Yesterday's BBC telecast of the footage created a sensation of sort and some thought they had spotted the culprits who killed Woolmer in his Pegasus hotel room on March 18.

Bhatti later clarified that the footage was in fact of March 16 and he, along with the APP reporter and Woolmer, was returning after a reception hosted by team's media manager Pervez Mir.

Bhatti said

Bob was going back to his room after a reception hosted by Pervez Mir.

This picture was taken in the lobby near a lift when Bob was headed towards to his room after the reception.

During the programme, BBC also claimed that Woolmer was first poisoned before he was strangulated.

Deputy Commissioner of Jamaica Police Mark Shields told the programme that it was next to impossible for one man to subdue a man of Woolmer's proportion and the coach must have been subdued before strangled.

Shields said

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.

It now seems certain that as he was being strangled, he'd already been rendered helpless - leaving him unable to fight back. The specific details of that poison are now very likely.

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