PCB urges Jamaican authorities to conduct internal inquiry into Woolmer case

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has urged the Jamaican authorities to conduct an internal inquiry into the findings of Bob Woolmer death case after Dr Ere Seshaiah, who conducted the first autopsy, maintained that the coach was murdered.

Lahore, June 16 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has urged the Jamaican authorities to conduct an internal inquiry into the findings of Bob Woolmer death case after Dr Ere Seshaiah, who conducted the first autopsy, maintained that the coach was murdered.

With Dr Seshaiah claiming that Woolmer was murdered even after the Jamaica Police officially announced that he died of a heart failure, the Director of Cricket Operations of the PCB, Zakir Khan, said the police should hold an inquiry in the mess caused in the autopsy.

"We want this matter closed now. It has already caused enough heartbreak and trauma. But yes, we would expect the Jamaican authorities to hold an internal inquiry into this mess up," Khan said.

Khan, however, ruled out taking any legal action against the Jamaica Police or Seshaiah, but said the PCB would want the Jamaican authorities to analyse their handling of the case, The Nation reported.

"It would be good if they took a look at what went wrong and held an inquiry as this entire episode was a source of pressure for us," he said.

After a three-month long investigation, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) early this week stated that Woolmer died of 'natural causes' and ended its investigation.

Police came to this conclusion on the basis of evidence of three independent pathologists from Britain, Canada and South Africa, who reviewed the initial autopsy.

But a day after, Seshaiah said he found signs that Woolmer had been asphyxiated through manual strangulation. "I am sticking to my findings. He was murdered," he was quoted as saying by the Jamaican Observer.

Woolmer, 58, was found dead in his hotel room soaked in pool of vomit on March 18, a day after Pakistan made an ignominious exit from the World Cup.

ANI