'No proof' Woolmer was murdered

The probe into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is “inconclusive” and has not proved that he was murdered, a Pakistani investigator said today.

The comments by Mir Zubair Mahmood, a senior Karachi detective who was sent to Jamaica to help the investigation into the death of the former England test player, casts doubt over earlier assertions by police there that Woolmer was murdered.

Jamaican police have said Woolmer was found strangled in his room in an upscale hotel in Kingston on March 18, a day after his Pakistan squad was eliminated from the World Cup by minnows Ireland in an upset defeat.

But Mahmood said that the cause of the coach’s death has yet to be determined.

“We have gone through all the confidential investigation which I cannot share with you because it would be unethical, but I can say that at this point no one can say that it was a murder or a natural death,” Mr Mahmood told The Associated Press.

“Several tests have been sent to Scotland Yard and the results are awaited and the most I can say (is) that the investigation in Bob Woolmer’s case is inconclusive,” he said.