Jamaican police begin inquest to find Woolmer’s death cause

[Moin91]

KINGSTON: Jamaican police have began the inquest on Tuesday to know the reason of the death of Pakistan cricket team’s coach Bob Woolmer.
Jamaican police have not ruled out a violent crime in the death of Bob Woolmer.
The inquest aims to determine if anyone bears responsibility for the death of the 58-year-old coach, who was found unconscious in his hotel room March 18, a day after his team was eliminated from cricket's World Cup.
"There was a lot of speculation, and as a result of that speculation we are having the inquest," Sgt. Dwayne Jex of the Jamaica Constabulary Force said Monday.
More than 50 people are expected to testify. Jex estimated the process would take more than two months.
Jamaican authorities initially said a preliminary autopsy was inconclusive, but a few days after Woolmer's death police announced he had been strangled, setting off a worldwide homicide probe.
Investigators collected dozens of DNA samples and fingerprints from potential witnesses, including members of the Pakistan cricket squad and other teams.
Months later, Jamaica's police commissioner announced authorities closed their homicide investigation after getting opinions from three independent pathologists from Britain, South Africa and Canada and reviewing a toxicology report.
Police said it would be up to Jamaica's coroner to issue the official cause of death after the inquest.

 

[Spring Onion]

Lo kar Lo gul
the Jamican police had already proved worthless now come up with another headach

 

[Moin91]

Probe in Woolmer’s death: Three persons record statements first day

JAMAICA: Three persons recorded their statements on the first day of the fresh investigations in the death of Pakistan cricket team’s coach Bob Woolmer here on Tuesday.

The maid of the Pegases Hotel, Bernice Robinson told the 11-member inquest panel, headed by Coroner Patrick Murphy, that when she entered the room of Woolmer in the morning of March 18, she was shocked to see that the chair was lying at the floor and blood spread on the pillow and there was a smell of alcohol and vomits in the air. Woolmer’s body was held into door of the bathroom and blood was flowing on the sink and floor of the bathroom.

Director Public Prosecution Kent Pantry interrogated on Robinson.

Indian doctor Sheeshah had declared Woolmer’s death a murder after post-mortem.

British pathologist Nathaniel Carry told the inquest panel that he did not agree with the concept that Woolmer was strangled to death.

Dr. Herb Eliot was the fist doctor to reach the place of incident.

 

[MIG_ACE]

The Jamaican police have made themselves the laughing stocks of law enforcement agencies worldwide. The completely messed up the investigation. In the days following the murder/death they were coming up with a new cause of death almost every day. I expect this inquest will have similar results.

 

[Moin91]

Pathologist says mistakes made in Woolmer examination

KINGSTON, October 18: Mistakes were made in post-mortem examinations of late Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, a British pathologist said under cross-examination at an inquest into Woolmer's death.

Pathologist Nathaniel Cary spent the three-hour morning session on Wednesday answering questions from Kent Pantry, Jamaica's director of public prosecution, in the probe into the shock death of the 58-year-old former England player.

Woolmer was found in his room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel unconscious on March 18, a day after Pakistan were embarrassed by Ireland in a major upset at the Cricket World Cup.

Cary told the court that Jamaican government pathologist Ere Sheshiah, who conducted the first post-mortem, made a mistake when he suggested murder.

Following Sheshiah's post-mortem two days after Woolmer died, the Jamaican police first reported inclusive and then suspicious circumstances around the death before saying Woolmer was murdered.

Jamaican police went to Scotland Yard for help and London's Metropolitan Police, after an exam by Cary, concluded that Woolmer was not murdered, but died of heart failure.

Cary, who said there was no evidence of strangulation or poison, admitted he also made mistakes in a pathology exam of Woolmer.

In his report, Cary said the neck was cut before the brain was removed, but after shown videos, he admitted otherwise.

"I was mistaken when I said the brain was not removed before the next. I have to withdraw that statement," Cary told the court.

He also sided with Pantry and judge coroner of Kingston Patrick Murphy that the brain was possibly removed to examine and that weighing of the brain was to determine if anything was wrong.

Cary, however, remained adamant that Sheshiah went about his business wrong, justifying his stance by saying the wrong procedure was used to pull out the tongue and adding the used procedure would have made determining anything difficult.

 

[Moin91]

Jamaican maid tells of blood-spattered room

A Jamaican hotel maid described finding Bob Woolmer’s body in a disheveled, blood-spattered room as an inquest began Tuesday into what caused the death of the Pakistan coach during the Cricket World Cup.

The maid, Bernice Robinson, told an 11-member jury she noticed a chair was overturned, there was blood on the pillow and there was a smell like a mix of alcohol and vomit when she entered the room to clean it on the morning of March 18. Then Robinson noticed a man’s leg extending out of a bathroom door, which she could not open because the body of the 58-year-old coach was blocking it from the inside. The maid called for help, setting off one of the largest investigations in modern Jamaican history as authorities tried to determine how the coach died a day after his team was eliminated from the World Cup.

Robinson was the first of about 50 witnesses expected to testify at the inquest, which is expected last until Nov. 9 and determine the official cause of death. Jamaican police announced four days after Woolmer died that he had been strangled. Nearly three months later, following a globe-spanning homicide probe, authorities closed the homicide case after pathologists in Britain, South Africa and Canada concluded the coach died from natural causes.

Dr. Nathaniel Cary, a British pathologist, testified at the inquest that he found no marks of strangulation on Woolmer’s neck. “If I was asked if there was a violent struggle, I would say no,” Cary said. The maid said she knocked on Woolmer’s door earlier in the morning but got no response and heard what she thought was snoring. Robinson decided to return later after cleaning other rooms. The second person on the scene was another maid, who was too afraid to even look into the bathroom, where Robinson said she could see blood in the sink and on the floor. Even together, they could not open the door and had to call for help. ap

 

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Janitor saw Woolmer with bundle of notes in dressing room

Thursday, November 01, 2007
KINGSTON: A witness testified at the inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer to seeing a roll of US currency in the Pakistan dressing room on the eve of their World Cup opener against the West Indies in March.

Patricia Baker-Sinclair, a janitorial supervisor, said that when she entered the changing room at Sabina Park on March 12 to carry out her cleaning duties she saw Pakistan cricket coach Woolmer “checking a thick coil of US currency” in front of “an Indian-looking man”.

“I knocked on the door of Pakistan changing room and was asked to identify myself, which I did,” she told coroner Patrick Murphy and the 11 jurors. “I was then told to enter, on entering, I recalled Woolmer checking thick coil of US currency in front of the Indian man, who was in a jacket suit,” she said.

Baker-Sinclair was unable to identify the second man, nor to say how much money she had seen or whether money had, in fact, changed hands. Woolmer died on March 18 after being found unconscious in his hotel room, a day after Pakistan were knocked out of the World Cup in embarrassing style by minnows Ireland.

The announcement by Jamaican authorities that they were treating his death as murder sparked feverish speculation that it was linked to corruption in international cricket. In June, however, Jamaican police said they were no longer treating Woolmer’s death as homicide and that the former England player had apparently died of natural causes.

Much of the testimony at this inquest has focused on the methods used by Jamaican government pathologist Ere Sheshiah; with several international pathologists saying his examinations did not conform to global standards.

Sheshiah has defended his work and stuck to his opinion that Woolmer was strangled after first ingesting a toxic pesticide. Baker-Sinclair, asked by prosecutor Tanya Spence how she knew it was US money that she saw, replied: “Because me know it”.

Meanwhile, forensic scientists Patrick Best and Cheryl Corbin, both of Barbados, also testified on Tuesday. The two said they examined samples of the contents of Woolmer’s stomach and said the pesticide cypermethrin was found in the body.

 

[roadrunner]

recalled Woolmer checking thick coil of US currency in front of the Indian man, who was in a jacket suit,” she said.

..the plot thickens.

. Baker-Sinclair, asked by prosecutor Tanya Spence how she knew it was US money that she saw, replied: “Because me know it”.