Woolmer widow relieved at death finding
June 13, 2007
CAPE TOWN: The widow of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer expressed relief Tuesday after Jamaican police finally declared that he was not murdered but died of natural causes.
“We are relieved that it has been officially announced that Bob died of natural causes,” Gill Woolmer told AFP from her home in Pinelands, Cape Town, adopted by the English-born Woolmer as his hometown. “It is now over.”
She would not say whether she was surprised by the finding by the police, adding: “I didn’t expect anything. It was an official police investigation.”
Jamaica Constabulary Force commissioner Lucius Thomas earlier on Tuesday announced that foreign pathologists “concur with the view that Mr Woolmer died of natural causes” while in further toxicology tests, “no substance was found to indicate that Bob Woolmer was poisoned”.
“My hope is that despite the trauma of the last two and half months, Mrs Woolmer and her sons will be confident that the JCF has done all it can to establish the truth surrounding the death of her husband,” Thomas said.
“We are relieved that it has been officially announced that Bob died of natural causes,” Gill Woolmer told AFP from her home in Pinelands, Cape Town, adopted by the English-born Woolmer as his hometown. “It is now over.”
She would not say whether she was surprised by the finding by the police, adding: “I didn’t expect anything. It was an official police investigation.”
Jamaica Constabulary Force commissioner Lucius Thomas earlier on Tuesday announced that foreign pathologists “concur with the view that Mr Woolmer died of natural causes” while in further toxicology tests, “no substance was found to indicate that Bob Woolmer was poisoned”.
“My hope is that despite the trauma of the last two and half months, Mrs Woolmer and her sons will be confident that the JCF has done all it can to establish the truth surrounding the death of her husband,” Thomas said.
