Jamaican pathologist still thinks Woolmer was murdered

The Jamaican pathologist whose autopsy found the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murder is standing by his report despite a contradictory conclusion by three other doctors and police, a newspaper reported today.

“I am sticking to my findings. He was murdered,” Dr Ere Seshaiah told The Jamaica Observer.

Police had relied on Seshaiah’s autopsy when announcing that Woolmer had been strangled in his hotel room in March after his heavily favoured team was ousted from the Cricket World Cup by Ireland.

Jamaican police yesterday said that three independent pathologists from Britain, South Africa and Canada had concluded that the coach died from natural causes and they closed the homicide investigation.

Seshaiah told the Observer he was “confident” that the coach had been murdered.

“Woolmer is not a first for me,” he said. “I have been doing autopsies here since 1995.”

Woolmer played in 19 Test matches and 6 One-day Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan.