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Woolmer's widow insists murder can't be ruled out

The widow of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer does not rule out murder as the cause of his death.

Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Kingston, Jamaica, hotel room on Sunday and pronounced dead at a local hospital. The previous day, Pakistan was stunned by Ireland in a St. Patrick's Day victory that assured Pakistan's early ouster from the World Cup.

Police said on Tuesday they are treating Woolmer's death as "suspicious."

"I mean some of the cricketing fraternity, fans are extremely volatile and passionate about the game and what happens in the game, and also a lot of it in Asia, so I suppose there is always the possibility that it could be that [murder]," Gill Woolmer told Sky Sports in an interview yesterday from her home in Cape Town, South Africa.

"It fills me with horror," she said. "I just can't believe that people would behave like that or that anyone would want to harm someone who has done such a great service to international cricket."

The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, citing an unnamed high-ranking police officer, reported yesterday that authorities found a bone broken in Woolmer's neck and that investigators were treating the case as a homicide.

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