Captain Inzamamul Haq was seen leaving the team hotel near the capital's Heathrow airport, driving off in a car towards the airport itself. Batsman Imran Nazir also briefly emerged from the hotel.

The Pakistan team arrived in London on Sunday for a pre-arranged stopover en route home after their doomed trip to the Caribbean.

The players, said to be devastated at Woolmer's death hours after they were dumped out of the World Cup by minnows Ireland, have made little or no comment during their London stay.

Reports suggested they would issue a statement before leaving London, but this could not immediately be confirmed.

According to informed sources, the Pakistani team were due to leave London later Tuesday in three groups, all of them heading initially for Dubai. It was unclear if they were to fly on from there to Pakistan.

The Pakistani cricket captain's flight was due to leave around 1600 GMT, after an early afternoon flight and before another leaving mid-evening, the source said.

Their planned departure came as a British press report said Jamaican police were searching for three of the Pakistan team's fans who spent a great deal of time with the players, in order to "eliminate them" from enquiries.

The three reportedly were close to the players and appeared with them at press conferences and after matches. The paper said they are believed to have left Jamaica shortly after Woolmer was found dead on March 18.

Reports from Islamabad add, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Tuesday promised legislators that players will get legal aid if they are summoned to Jamaica for questioning over the murder of coach Bob Woolmer, a senator said.

PCB chairman Naseem Ashraf was also asked when he appeared before the senate committee for sports about the team's poor performance at the World Cup, where Pakistan were dumped out by Ireland.

Senator Anwar Baig, a member of the committee, said, "We asked the chairman why no legal assistance was provided to the players in Jamaica when they were facing the investigation."

"Ashraf said the board will do it in future if required," Baig told AFP after the nearly two-hour hearing in Islamabad.

Jamaican police questioned the whole team once and captain Inzamam, caretaker coach Mushtaq Ahmed and manager Talat Ali twice after Woolmer's death. The squad also gave DNA samples and fingerprints.