Woolmer's Death `Suspicious'

Police Promise Full Investigation

Mark Shields (pictured below) has probably never faced the full glare of the international media as he did when announcing that the death of Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's cricket coach, was being treated as ``suspicious''.
``Having met with the pathologist, other medical personnel and investigators,'' he said, ``there is now sufficient information to continue a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Woolmer, which we are now treating as suspicious.''
It is 26 years since former England Test cricketer Ken Barrington died during a Test series in the West Indies. But that's where the similarity ends. Barrington, the assistant manager of the touring England side, died of a heart attack.
While the world speculates on the cause of Woolmer's death, some television channels are already reporting that when he was found unconscious, he had marks on his neck. He never regained consciousness and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
CNN has just reported that experts were being called in to run additional tests on tissue samples, according to information from Sergeant Bevan Brown of the Jamaican police.
Pakistan Cricket Board spokesman Pervez Mir said, ``The pathologist findings were inconclusive, and he is awaiting results of toxicology and histology from the government national laboratory and the government forensic laboratory.''