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Police to seek DNA samples from West Indian and Irish players
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Police will seek DNA samples from everyone in the hotel where Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered _ including members of the West Indies and Ireland teams _an official announced here, saying ``there are many potential suspects.''
Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields called the effort ``a huge task'' and said there would be no quick end to the probe into who strangled Woolmer after his team's surprise elimination from the World Cup on St. Patrick's Day.“There are many potential suspects in this investigation and even more potential witnesses,'' Shields told journalists gathered at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, where Woolmer's body was found the day after his team lost to Ireland.
"That process will continue for everybody else who was in thehotel at the same time,'' Shields said, adding that police might travel abroad to collect samples and question people, including those in other Caribbean islands for the World Cup. He said it might not be necessary to call people back to Jamaica but did not rule it out.
It was not immediately clear how many people were staying in the hotel when Woolmer was killed. Besides Pakistan's team, players’ from the West Indies and Ireland squads also were guests, as well as dozens of fans and international journalists.
"We're still trying to track down as many witnesses as we can,’ Shields said. ``It's a huge task ... but we have to start from somewhere.''
Shields said police were no closer to identifying a motive but that he would assign officers to an International Cricket Council probe into whether Woolmer's murder was linked to match-fixing.
He said police were still reviewing closed-circuit video and Woolmer's laptop for clues.
Courtesy Geo