Woolmer murder inquest starts April 23
THE coroner’s inquest into the March 18 murder of Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer is scheduled to start on April 23 at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, sources said yesterday.
Jamaican officials could not be reached yesterday, but the Times Online reported that the inquest into the death of Woolmer is to be opened in two weeks. It said Patrick Murphy, the coroner for Kingston, will hold a full hearing, complete with live testimony from as many as a dozen witnesses who were in the process of being summoned to appear before the court.
The Pakistan coach was found unconscious in his hotel room – Room 374 at the Jamaica Pegasus – on Sunday, March 18, 2007 and was later pronounced dead at the University Hospital of the West Indies.
Woolmer died less than a day after Ireland handed Pakistan their second defeat in the opening matches of the World Cup, effectively kicking them out of the tournament.
Following a post-mortem performed by pathologist Ere Seshaiah, the police said the cause of death was “inconclusive”, but by early evening that same day advised that the death was being treated as “suspicious”. Two days later the police said the coach was strangled and that his death was being treated as murder.