Seshaiah defends murder theory

A day after Jamaican police confirmed that Bob Woolmer died of natural causes, 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. The results of the investigation will now be handed over to the coroner of the corporate Area, Patrick Murphy. All the files detailing the four pathologists' findings, as well as the results of tests carried out on fluid and tissue samples taken from Woolmer's body, will also be handed over to him.

Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston a day after Pakistan's exit from the World Cup. The autopsy, conducted by Seshaiah, claimed that Woolmer was murdered by manual strangulation. The investigation was treated as a homicide until early this month when three independent pathologists all concluded that Woolmer died from a heart attack caused by a combination of illnesses.