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Vol. 5 Num 1019 Fri. April 13, 2007  
   
Sports


Woolmer Murder
TV footage sent to UK


Police investigating the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer have sent CCTV images to the UK for analysis, Jamaican officials have said.

Woolmer was found dead in his Kingston hotel on 18 March, the day after his side lost to Ireland in the World Cup. It is believed he was strangled.

Representatives of the UK and Pakistani police forces have been sent to Jamaica to help police with the investigation.

The ex-England batsman's body remains in Jamaica pending a coroner's inquiry.

A memorial service for Woolmer was held in Cape Town, South Africa, last week, where Woolmer's wife and two sons live -- another one was held in Pakistan earlier in the week.

The footage from the Kingston hotel has been sent to Scotland Yard "for further consideration", Jamaica Police spokesman Karl Angell said without giving further details.

A team of four officers from Scotland Yard arrived in Jamaica last week to help with the inquiry, following a formal request from the Jamaican authorities.

Pakistan also sent as an observer senior police investigator Mir Zubair Mahmood, who led the investigation into the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.

He and another security official had come at the request of the Jamaican government, an official said.

Two forensic experts from Interpol, the France-based international police agency, have also been helping the investigation.

Jamaica's deputy police commissioner Mark Shields has said the foreign investigators will help with DNA analysis and also examine theories that Woolmer may have been poisoned before being strangled.