Questions and police answers about the Woolmer murder

By Jim Loney

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Ten days after the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, police had not made an arrest by Wednesday.

The British policeman leading the investigation, Jamaica deputy police commissioner Mark Shields, talked in depth about what police know and do not know about the killing of one of the cricket's best-known coaches in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday.

Woolmer's body was found by a chambermaid on March 18 in the bathroom of his room at Kingston's Pegasus Hotel. The room contained blood and vomit and a lot of fingerprints. The police are treating the case as murder, they said last Thursday.

Here are excerpts:

Reuters: Did he die in the hotel room or at the hospital?

Mark Shields: "When he was found by the chambermaid she was joined by a doctor and a nurse who attempted to resuscitate him although I understand there were no visible signs of life."

"There were no visible signs of life. I'm not a doctor so I can't say but a doctor did try to revive him. When he got to the hospital he was pronounced dead at 1214."

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