Woolmer's controversial autopsy review report delayed

Port of Spain, Aug 1 (UNI) A review on the Indian-born pathologist Dr Ere Seshiah's controversial autopsy in the Bob Woolmer death case has been delayed as the commission which is looking into the matter said it needed more time.

The Permanent Secretary in the National Security Ministry Gilbert Scott informed that the commission, headed by former High Court judge Ian Forte who was supposed to submit a report yesterday, whether proper procedures were utilised by investigators and medical personnel in Woolmer's death investigation, said it would take more time to submit the final report.

''We now expect that we should be getting it somewhere in another two to three weeks,'' Scott was quoted by the 'Jamaica Gleaner' as saying.

Seshiah, the first pathologist to conduct the post-mortem on the late coach's body, had found that Woolmer died due to ''asphyxiation due to manual strangulation'', but later after a series of similar autopsies, the Jamaican Police said that the Englishman was not murdered but he died a natural death.

The review commission was appointed by National Security Minister Peter Phillips on June 13, a day after the Police High Command accepted that late Pakistan coach was not murdered as was initially reported.

Woolmer was found unconscious in suspicious circumstances in his hotel room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on March 18, a day after Pakistan's shocking ouster from the Caribbean World Cup following defeat at the hands of debutant Ireland. He later died at the University hospital the same day.

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