GILL Woolmer, the widow of murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, yesterday pleaded for an early closure to the police investigation into his death.

Speaking with the Observer from her home in Cape Town, South Africa, the bereaved widow wished for a speedy investigation into her husband’s murder.

“I just hope this thing can be done so we can find out who committed this terrible act,” she said.

Last week, after consultation with the police, coroner for the parishes of Kingston and St Andrew, Patrick Murphy, ordered that an inquest be conducted in the Woolmer murder. The decision means Woolmer’s family would not be able to bury him until the inquest is over.

“Its been a hard time for us,” she said, when asked about the time it was likely to take for husband’s body to be sent to her. “But it can’t be released because that’s Jamaican law”.

Yesterday, at a press briefing at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields indicated that the process in completing the investigations were advanced. “The reviewing of the CCTV footage is going well. I can identify people who were walking on the floor during the hours it was suspected Mr Woolmer was killed. We have an idea,” Shields said.