DR Ere Seshaiah, the pathologist at the centre of the Bob Woolmer death controversy, yesterday renewed his vow of silence a day after insisting that the former Pakistan cricket coach was murdered.

“I am not saying anything else, I spoke to you yesterday, (Tuesday),” Dr Seshaiah told the Observer as he left his office in Kingston yesterday.

When the Observer visited his office, a secretary, identified only as ‘Ms George’, informed the doctor of our presence and came back with a message that he would not be speaking to the media.

“Dr Seshaiah says based on his contract he cannot speak to the media. He will be submitting his findings to the ministry (of National Security),” a fiery George said.

A smiling Dr Seshaiah eventually emerged from his office saying, “I am not answering any questions.”

George and another female staff member also begged him not to speak.

“Mum is the word, Doc. Don’t say anything to them,” the women shouted, as Dr Seshaiah headed for an elevator with the Observer close in tow.

The Indian-born doctor, who heads the Pathology Department in the Ministry of National Security, has performed over 1,000 autopsies and stuck to his guns despite being second-guessed by three overseas pathologists that his findings were flawed.

The pathologists – Dr Nat Carey, consultant forensic pathologist for the United Kingdom, Professor Lorna Martin of Cape Town, South Africa and Dr Michael Pollanen of Ontario, Canada – all concurred that Woolmer was not strangled in contrast to Dr Seshaiah’s findings.

To date the reason for Dr Seshaiah’s conclusion that the cause of Woolmer’s death was asphyxiation due to manual strangulation has not been made public.

Pollanen, however, did agree that there was damage to the hyoid bone which Dr Seshaiah had said was broken as a result of an attack on Woolmer, but said the damage may have been caused by a ‘terminal collapse or falling in the hotel room in the period before death’.