Woolmer’s family say World Cup must go on

BOB WOOLMER’S suspected murder ominously overshadowed the World Cup on Friday — but the clear message from the coach’s bereaved family is that the games must go on.

While security was being tightened at team hotels and venues around the Caribbean, the Woolmer family insisted the man himself would not have wanted the World Cup stopped.

Their statement follows last night’s shock announcement that the former England batsman and Pakistan coach — who died in his Kingston hotel room last weekend — was killed by “manual strangulation”.