Pakistani cricket officials and players continue to remain sceptical about Jamaica police’s claims that coach Bob Woolmer was murdered two weeks ago in Kingston. Due to the sensitive nature of the issue, officials and players are not willing to speak on record about the incident but they believe that sooner than later investigators and forensic experts in Kingston will confirm Woolmer was not murdered and died of natural causes. “The Pakistan government was also not satisfied with the manner in which investigators in Kingston were approaching the case and thus decided to send their own senior investigators to Jamaica to observe how the investigations were held,” a board source opined.The three-member Pakistan delegation is due to leave today for Jamaica but so far there is no confirmation on whether the Jamaican authorities have agreed to allow the Pakistani investigators to play a pro-active role in the investigations.“Everyday they come up with new theories about how Woolmer died. But from what our manager Talat Ali saw when they found Bob lying unconscious in the bathroom, there are more chances he died of natural causes rather than being murdered,” one player said.Sources say that when Woolmer was found in his bathroom two things stand out and weaken the murder theory. “One that when the doctors checked him he was breathing and secondly there was vomit all over the bathroom with traces of food he had taken in it. The theory that he might have been strangled thus becomes very weak in the above circumstances,” said one source.He said Talat and the players all felt the investigators in Kingston might have overreacted due to the intense media interest in the case and given out premature theories about Woolmer’s death. “The Pakistani investigators will also look at theories that Woolmer might have been poisoned,” another source said.Now Shields prepares for an Easter break• London: Even as the Bob Woolmer murder mystery deepens with the addition of new theories every day, chief investigator Mark Shields is set to fly home this week for Easter. Shields, the Deputy Commissioner of Jamaica police who is leading the probe, insisted that he could not change his plans for the break, according to a report published in a British newspaper Daily Mail.Shields will make a nine-hour journey to London on Thursday. This will give him just two days to interact with Detective Superintendent John Sweeney and his three-man team from Scotland Yard’s Specialist Crime Directorate, which reaches. About his holiday trip, Shields said: “Don’t read anything into it. I had always planned to see my kids over the Easter holidays, and that is set in stone. I won’t change it for anything.” Meanwhile, the Scotland Yard detective team led by Sweeney, has been asked to review every aspect of inquiry, including forensic and CCTV evidence, witness statements and pathology report. Sweeney is expected to adopt a low key approach to the investigation in contrast to that of the media savvy Shields. (PTI)Speculation irks Woolmer’s widow• Durban: Bob Woolmer’s wife is furious with the constant media speculations surrounding the mysterious death of her husband in Kingston last month and said it was causing a great deal of trauma for the family. Gill Woolmer, who lives in Cape Town, told in an interview that speculations about Woolmer’s death on a daily basis was causing the family a great deal of trauma and stress.Gill referred to reports in the British media which suggested a number of reasons and ways how Woolmer could have been murdered in his hotel room. “I’m getting a bit angry about it all. I’m not watching the news any more. I’m taking it all with a pinch of salt,” she said. (PTI)
