We were kept in the dark, says Mir

The Pakistan cricket team has been “kept in the dark” by the Jamaican police investigating the murder of their coach Bob Woolmer in his hotel room...

The Pakistan cricket team has been “kept in the dark” by the Jamaican police investigating the murder of their coach Bob Woolmer in his hotel room, according to team manager Pervez Mir. Mir said he had left a message with Jamaican Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields to keep them informed about the progress of the investigation but was never informed about the proceedings.

“Because my chairman wants to know, my Board wants to know, what’s going on as far as the investigation is concerned and what the Jamaican police are doing to catch the killers of Woolmer,” Mir told reporters outside the team’s hotel near London’s Heathrow Airport.

“We assisted in whatever way they (the Jamaican police) wanted, but we need an official statement from their office to notify us officially as to what were the causes of Woolmer’s death,” he said. “We heard on television that he was murdered, but we have not been officially told and we need to know the reasons for his death.”

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Mir also said the police was trying to divert the murder investigation into a match-fixing inquiry.

“When a man has been murdered, to divert a murder inquiry into a match-fixing inquiry, that’s not fair, because we have to find the killers, then we will know what’s happened. To bring up the murky world of match-fixing, I think it’s not the right thing and not the right time,” he said.

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