Jamaican Police Deputy commissioner Mark Shields has said Bob Woolmer
had "no enemies" who could have harmed the Pakistan cricket coach
but investigators were obliged to treat the death as a murder on the basis of
pathology reports.
Shields, who was in Cape Town for a week interviewing Woolmer's friends and family,
said he was convinced that the 58-year-old former England player had no
enemies who would want to kill him.
"I get the impression that Bob Woolmer didn't have enemies,"
Shields said on the eve of his departure from Cape Town.
"Bob Woolmer was a thoroughly professional and likeable
individual, and I've not found anyone who would say a bad word about him or
stab him in the back. It's difficult establishing why anyone would want to harm
a well-loved person like Bob Woolmer," he was quoted as saying by a South
African website today.
But, Shields said, the police was keeping an open mind and
continuing to investigate the murder angle.
"I have been presented with facts from a pathologist which say manual
strangulation and asphyxiation, therefore I'm obliged to conduct an investigation
around that," he said.
"At the same time I am keeping an open mind. Nothing is written in stone
until we get to the bottom of the investigation," he added.
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