Pakistan coach Woolmer dies

[HAIDER]

Sounds like victim of betting mafia.

 

[Adux]

OR maybe someone in Pakistani team killed him, when he was going to expose his/thier name for match fixing

Just my 0.02 cents for the conspiracy theory and rumour mongering

 

[Keysersoze]

I think he died of a heart attack caused by stress and aggravating conditions of his diabetes.......

 

[Adux]

It is said that he had Stragulation marks on his neck.

 

[sword9]

I think he died of a heart attack caused by stress and aggravating conditions of his diabetes.......

One who has faced difficult times like the match fixing Cronje case does not bear stress due to loss of a match.

It look like he was murdered. Very sad indeed.

 

[Adux]

Woolmer was strangled, says Jamaica police
Thursday, March 22, 2007

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Kingston (Jamaica): A top Jamaican police official has said that fresh evidence has surfaced suggesting that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled to death in his hotel room here between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

"A bone in the neck, near the glands, was broken, and this suggests that somebody might have put some pressure on it," the official, who was not named, told the Jamaica Gleaner.

Woolmer, 58, was found dead in his room at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Sunday morning a day after Pakistan's shocking loss to Ireland in a Group D cricket World Cup match, which sent his team crashing out of cricket's biggest event.

"We are now treating this as a homicide," the Gleaner quoted the official as saying.

However, head of World Cup security and Jamaica's Assistant Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has said that he would not confirm rumours of strangulation, according to the newspaper.

An autopsy conducted on Tuesday by a Jamaican government pathologist proved to be inconclusive.

The newspaper also claimed to have "reliably" learnt that Woolmer was found dead in his hotel at 8 a.m. on Sunday and not at 10:45 am as stated by Pakistan's Media Manager Pervez Mir.

But hotel manager Eldon Bremnertold told the newspaper the 8 a.m. suggestion was "grossly inaccurate", but refused to comment further as it was a police matter.

According to the report, police also combed Woolmer's room on Wednesday and examined tapes of closed circuit television to check out who entered Woolmer's room during the period in question.

Mir, however, dismissed, the suggestions of strangulation as wild speculation.

"The statements of speculation which have come on Jamaican television, I'm afraid I cannot count them as accurate because... the Jamaican Police Constabulary Force doesn't give us official information as to what are the causes of Bob's death," he told the Gleaner.

Meanwhile, police interviewed members of the Pakistan team on Wednesday night. The players were scheduled to fly out to Montego Bay on Thursday morning where they would have spent two days before leaving for Pakistan on Saturday.

It is now unclear whether the team will be allowed to leave as initially scheduled, according to the Gleaner.


http://content.msn.co.in/News/International/InternationalIANS_220307_1228

 

[Bull]

There is a cover up happening. The initial claim by Jamaican police that he was strangulated was withdrawn and they said they are going to refer it another postmortem to study the foriegn substance he had.

So poison, strangulation or heart attack?

Definitly its not a natural death.

 

[melb4aust]

Definitly its not a natural death.

What if it is?

 

[Awesome]

Another death at World Cup

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (Mar 22, 2007)

Former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died of a suspected heart attack yesterday, the second fatality in four days at the World Cup.

Irish assistant coach Matt Dwyer said that Kerr, 68, died "from what we believe was a heart attack."

Kerr's death follows that of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, who was found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston and died later Sunday in a hospital.

http://www.guelphmercury.com/NASApp...2&call_pageid=1050067726101&col=1050421501465

 

[Awesome]

Jamaicans don't seem to be sure about, so I wouldn't use the word "definitely" yet.

For some reason Indian media has been all up in arms about making this seem more than it really is. It is still innocent till proven guilty and no judgment can be passed till there is reasonable doubt.

Until then a lot of this is just slander.

 

[Adux]

What if it is?

They wouldnt take so much time to say it, nobody wants a murder in the camp, but you cant hide these sorts of stuff.

Asim

Indian media didnt say anything , until jamican radio and local newspapers told about poison and strangulation,

 

[Bull]

What if it is?

Imn't accusing, but putting together what happened.

Woolmer commented that this lose was just as bad as the lose at edgbaston in his last email - So he wasnt terribly upset as what is made out to be.

In his last email he spoke of life ahead and also commented that his articles hence forth has to be in a different perspective. ( What perspective? Was he referring to betting mafias influence in pakistani team ? If so did anybody else read the email ?)

Initial report had said their were signs of strangulation in the neck.

Then a conflicting report said he had consumed something, and there were blood in the toilet due to vomiting.

And then the third version that he had suffered a heart attack.

But now the jamaican police has gone back to the 1&2 theory.

 

[HAIDER]

Its same clan who killed south african captain Hansie. According to Pakistani media report, he was going to publish a book very soon in which he was going to expose some pakistan, India and Bengaladeshi players who are invoved in betting. Plus south african are already notorious in betting. Bob Woomer record from 94 to 98 is under spot light.......

 

[Keysersoze]

Jamaicans don't seem to be sure about, so I wouldn't use the word "definitely" yet.

For some reason Indian media has been all up in arms about making this seem more than it really is. It is still innocent till proven guilty and no judgment can be passed till there is reasonable doubt.

Until then a lot of this is just slander.

It's libel in print form not slander ..........And printing things from Jamaican papers and Indian papers hardly constitutes "truth". And if someone disagrees with this "truth", it does not make it a cover up. Sheeesh people use Occam's razor occasionally.

 

[HAIDER]

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 22 (AFP) Pakistan's World Cup players were being questioned on Thursday as the investigation into the death of Bob Woolmer became embroiled in a fevered round of speculation and denial. “We're going through a process of speaking to people, including members of the team,” said Mark Shields, the deputy chief commissioner of the Jamaican police force. Pakistan team is due to leave for home on Saturday after spending two days in Montego Bay. Meanwhile, the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper said a “high-ranking police officer” had confirmed that fresh evidence has surfaced which suggested that Woolmer was strangled in his room at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel between Saturday night and Sunday morning. According to the police officer, Woolmer was found half naked in his room, partially wrapped in a towel, the newspaper said. The newspaper also quoted unnamed sources close to the investigation as saying that bones in the lower part of Woolmer's face were broken, suggesting he had been strangled. Pakistan team spokesman Pervez Mir dismissed the suggestions. “I'm afraid I cannot count these as accurate because the Jamaican police force hasn't given us official information as to what were the causes of Bob's death,” Mir said.(Posted @ 21:15 PST)

http://dawn.com/2007/03/22/welcome.htm