Coroner releases Woolmer's body

The body of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been released by a coroner and will be returned to his native South Africa…

The body of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been released by a coroner and will be returned to his native South Africa.

A coroner's inquest scheduled to begin yesterday was postponed indefinitely because of undisclosed developments in the case.

Bob Woolmer
Bob Woolmer

Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room on March 18th and was pronounced dead at a hospital the morning after his Pakistan team was upset at the World Cup by Ireland and knocked out in the first round of group games.

The death cast a pall on the showpiece tournament of international one-day cricket which is being held in the Caribbean for the first time.

A pathologist who conducted a postmortem initially ruled that Woolmer's cause of the death was inconclusive but four days later determined he had been strangled.

Police said this month they had received results of toxicology tests but did not release them pending further analysis.

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