Pakistani detectives helping Jamaica investigations
INVESTIGATION: Two Pakistani detectives are helping
investigate the murder of the country’s World Cup cricket coach after
Jamaican police failed to make a breakthrough more than three weeks
after the crime, a security official said Wednesday.
The Pakistani investigators arrived in the capital of Kingston on
Monday to help solve the killing of Bob Woolmer, who was found strangled
to death a day after his squad was ousted from the sport’s premier
tournament, said Gilbert Scott, permanent secretary in Jamaica’s
Ministry of National Security.
“They will be here for as long as it takes,” Scott told The
Associated Press. They came at the request of the Caribbean island’s
government, he added.
The detectives join four Scotland Yard investigators and two forensic
experts from Interpol, the France-based international police agency, who
have been aiding in the probe for about two weeks.
Woolmer, 58, died March 18, a day after his squad was upset by
Ireland.
A Jamaican pathologist initially ruled his death “inconclusive,” but
four days later announced Woolmer was strangled.
Mark Shields, Jamaica’s deputy police commissioner, has said the
foreign investigators would help with DNA analysis and also examine
theories that Woolmer, Pakistan’s coach since 2004, may have been
poisoned before he was strangled.
Authorities are still awaiting toxicology reports.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) |