Pathologist involved in Woolmer murder case may lose his job

The pathologist, whose findings suggested that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer had been murdered, could lose his job over the case.

London, June 4 : The pathologist, whose findings suggested that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer had been murdered, could lose his job over the case.

Indian-born Dr Ere Seshaiah's position as a Jamaican Government pathologist looks in jeopardy as Jamaican police prepare to confirm the Daily Mail's exclusive report on Saturday that Woolmer died of natural causes.

It was Dr Seshaiah's findings that led former Scotland Yard detective Mark Shields to announce to the world that Woolmer, the coach of Pakistan, had been strangled in his hotel room during the World Cup in March.

Shields, Jamaica's Deputy Police Commissioner, is also in the firing line and some Jamaican officers are saying privately that he is about to quit.

He recently visited Woolmer's widow Gill at her Cape Town home, although she said that she had not been told the murder investigation would be wrapped up.

Dr Seshaiah took up his post in the Jamaican capital Kingston 12 years ago. A review of his autopsy by a senior Home Office pathologist in London concluded he was wrong to suggest that Woolmer was strangled.

Tests showed the heavy-drinking coach was not poisoned either. Sources said he was ill and probably died of heart failure.

He was also likely to have been under stress after Pakistan crashed out of the World Cup.

ANI