Bob Woolmer Mystery – Silence On The Lam: Were you, weren’t you, were you, weren’t you, were you bumped off?
anything you can do, I can do better.
I can do any thing better than you.
No you can’t.
Yes I can.
No you can’t.
Yes I can.
No you can’t.
Yes I can, yes I can.anything you can be I can be greater.
sooner or later, I’m greater than you.
No, you’re not.
Yes I am.
No you’re not.
Yes I am.
No you’re not.
Yes I am, yes I am.
That comes from a film about guns, no murder but there was a debate as to who gets it right… Kinda like how ppl are still debating if Bob Woolmer was choked, poisoned or none of the above? Poor Windies cricket, no Lara, crumpled against England and now allegations of sexual misconduct? All this and Woolmer too!
Once upon a time it might have been a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury – nowadays THIS tale is being told by IDIOTS still signifying nothing although sounding furious! Caribbean 360 quotes a former colleague of the late South African who believes it’s all part of a massive cover-up which may yet clean-bowl the cricketing community -
The preliminary finding by the Jamaica pathologist was that Woolmer was strangled leading to a police murder probe but a subsequent report by a Scotland Yard pathologist said that there was no foul play and his death was natural. This supported a similar position held by two Pakistani police officers who went to Jamaica as part of the investigating team.
In South Africa, Woolmer’s long time friend and former South African captain Clive Rice alleged that the official death report to be released tomorrow was a cover up and all cricketers would be unsafe unless the truth is told.
Rice’s contention is why was there bruising and how come traces of a foreign substance were found? Meanwhile – a Jamaican Human Rights group says more attention was paid to Woolmer than most or many Jamaicans and forensic pathologists should give equally due diligence in closing those cases! Do such cases impinge on local or regional tourism and international sporting scandals?
Over at Caribbean Cricket, some are flip and accuse the butler – still others give logical rebuttals, but the majority one way or another feel that if Jamaica was a European state, it would well be Denmark!
Of course with the results Jamaica is being forced to post, the ICC is as orgasmic as a feline in a vat of catnip -
…we sincerely hope this will now cause speculation to cease and provide an opportunity for his family, friends and former colleagues to continue the healing process…
This does not stop a wide spate of debates since make no bones about it, Jamaica is not the only intrigued party who has stakeholders declaring there was foul play still at hand or throat -
Dr Ere Seshaiah, the pathologist who conducted the post mortem, defended his findings that Woolmer was murdered.“I am sticking to my findings,” Seshaiah told the Jamaica Observer. “He was murdered.
Woolmer is not a first for me, I have been doing autopsies here [in Jamaica] since 1995.” However, his insistence that Woolmer was murdered is likely to result in the issue being settled in a coroner’s court.
This coroner maintains his stance even in the face of calls from Jamaica’s opposition to have him removed! And journalists also have their reputations at stake, one such entity who is not backing down is ye olde Beeb -
The reluctance to revise history online – BBC News believes it accurately reported claims made by others at the time – contrasts with the policy operated by it and other online news organisations in cases of court re-trials, when, by and large, they delete archive material reporting the first trial in order to avoid prejudicing the second.
This stance of seeming integrity is not only reporters and medical examiners – it is also UK bobbies who probed the situation too (This is even though the top Jamaican police has bended down so low, you have to wonder where is the sycamore tree?) -
Jamaican police have mounted a robust defence of their actions and of their deputy commissioner, Mr Shields, who became the public face of the investigation.Mr Shields said that he would “definitely not“ be resigning.
Why has everyone chosen to forget the book that Woolmer was writing has now disappeared? Why has no one questioned the e-mail not using his speech syntax? What about the broken vertebrae in his neck? And, yes, the claims which were made that traces of the Harry Potter drug – aconite or wolfsbane – was found in Woolmer’s blood? Was it all hashish as Pakistani Thuggees used centuries ago?
As if this was not enough, do you know there are already candidates for what is now confirmed as one of the most dangerous jobs in the world? Among the prospective hopefuls to replace Woolmer is a speedster from Oz, Greg Lawson -
Lawson is on a shortlist of three with countrymen Dav Whatmore and ICC high performance manager Richard Done, Lawson‘s new-ball partner for the NSW Colts in 1977.
Lawson was due to fly from Sydney to the Pakistan capital of Islamabad at 9pm yesterday after being given assurances of his safety if appointed.
For the whole circus here, it seems to me that this bit of science-fiction sums it up best -
In my mind I searched, through forests of memory, for a ghost-sword in a stone of smoke, I think.
ROGER ZELAZNY - “This Mortal Mountain” (1971)
You know, one has to wonder what the World Cup would have been like without this particular farce going on.
The “murder” of Woolmer, cast a shadow over the whole World Cup, how would it have been different if it was announced as being an unfortunate result of natural causes?
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Don’t blame Bob Woolmer’s death or the apparent nature of it or the reaction to it for a poor World Cup. The strongest teams pretty much got to the final stages and there weren’t actually many exciting matches. Do you think
there would have been a thrilling last ball final encounter between say, Canada and Scotland if Bob hadn’t died?
Ironically, Bob had put a huge amount of work into broadening and thereby strengthening the appeal and eventually tha standard of cricket amongst the emerging nations. In the fulness of time there will hopefully be more competitive competitions. But how inconvenient of him to have died when he did. eh? The reason his death wasn’t ‘announced as being an unfortunate result of natural causes’ is because it clearly didn’t appear that way in the first place, hence the murder investigation.