Mir to ask PCB to take legal action against Jamaican police

London, June 8 (UNI) Amid claims of 'new material' and Bob Woolmer having died of heart attack, Pakistan team spokesman P J Mir has demanded an apology from the Jamaican police and threatened to recommend to the PCB to take legal action on the matter.

''I will be recommending to the chairman of the board to take necessary legal action,'' Mir said.

''The Jamaican police and the people concerned with this inquiry [should] come up and issue a formal apology to the Pakistan team, to the Zimbabwean team, to the Irish team and to the West Indian team, who were all staying at the hotel,'' he said.

Mir, who says he was the third person from the Pakistan team management to see Woolmer's body on the floor of his room at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, told Sky Sports News, ''What amazes me is, where on earth did the hint of murder come in?'' ''We saw Bob lying on the floor there. ''There was no sign of violence,'' Mir said.

''All of a sudden, the strangulation theory, the poison theory - all kinds of theories. It all started within a day, he added.

He said ''I want to know, where did all these theories come from, particularly the theory of murder? ''I think it's deplorable how it's all been handled,'' Mir remarked.

Mir claims Jamaican police spokesman Carl Angel said ''Woolmer died of natural causes. We think he died of hypertension.

''The police themselves are saying he died of hypertension and the next two or three hours it changes. It is fascinating how all this has been handled by pathologists or by the Jamaican police.

''Never in a million years could I even think that anyone from the Pakistan team could have been involved.

''There was so much insinuation, so much name-calling, finger-pointing.

''I'm afraid the Jamaican police will now be held responsible, and pathologists, for creating mistrust and distrust about the cricketing fraternity,'' he added.

Amid claims by Jamaica police of possessing ''new material'' in the death mystery of Bob Woolmer, a British newspaper today reported the coach died of heart attack and the the post mortem conducted by the local pathologist was bungled.

'The Times' said three internationally renowned pathologists have now concluded that Woolmer was not strangled but died of heart attack and this will be announced by the head of Jamaica's police Lucius Thomas next week.

''Thomas will also say Woolmer was not poisoned. Toxicology reports show that there was nothing in Woolmer's body that could have killed or incapacitated him,'' a report in the newspaper said.

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