Woolmer tapes sent for lab test

The four Scotland Yard detectives were invited to assist in the Woolmer case at the request of Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas. Meanwhile, there were reports that the CCTV footage were not clear but Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields, who is leading the probe, denied this claim, saying he could easily identify people who traversed the corridor on the 12th floor.

Local detectives spent hours recently transferring hours of footage from VHS tape into a digital format, the paper said.

Pak cops join in: Meanwhile, two Pakistani policemen have joined the investigation as Jamaican police were not able to make any breakthrough even three weeks after the coach’s mysterious death. Pakistani sleuths — Mir Zubair Mahmood and Kaleem Imam — joined the Scotland Yard investigators and two forensics experts from Interpol, the France-based international police agency, who have been aiding in the probe into the death of Woolmer.

The Pakistani police have arrived here in a bid to accelerate the investigation, said Gilbert Scott, Permanent Secretary in Jamaica’s Ministry of National Security. “They will be here for as long as it takes,” Scott was quoted as saying in the media here.

Mark Shields, Jamaica’s deputy police commissioner, said the Pakistani investigators would help with DNA analysis and would examine theories that Woolmer, Pakistan’s coach since 2004, may have been poisoned before he was strangled while authorities are still awaiting toxicology reports.