Woolmer murder detectives doing a 'good job' - Coach's wife by AFP

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ICC World Cup 2006/07

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DateLine: 6th April 2007

 

Murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer's wife Gill said in an interview published Friday that police investigating her husband's death were doing a "good job," and said that she wanted the inquiry brought to a "speedy conclusion."

 

Gill Woolmer, 58, also told The Times that any book that her husband may have been working on "is not worth publishing" because of the hurt it may cause.

 

Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 18, a day after cricketing superpower Pakistan suffered a shock defeat at the hands of minnows Ireland, knocking them out of the World Cup.

 

Jamaican police said Woolmer was strangled to death but have yet to identify the killers.

 

"Obviously I have not met Mark Shields (the officer in charge of the investigation), but he seems to be doing a good job," Gill Woolmer told the daily, speaking from her home in Cape Town.

 

"He is under stress and is tired and requires help because there are so many things to look into. We need to bring this to a speedy conclusion."

 

She also told the paper that Bob was not keeping a World Cup diary, but was planning to write a book on his time as coach of Pakistan's cricket team.

 

She added, however, that it "is best if that book never appears now. If it is going to cause upset, it is not worth publishing."

 

Woolmer's death last month provoked suspicion of the role of match-fixing, but Gill Woolmer said that in e-mails she had received from her husband, "there is not even a hint in them of his being scared, or of anything to do with match-fixing."

 

In the interview, she also spoke of how she was not keen on Woolmer even taking the job in the first place, telling The Times: "I said to him, 'I cannot believe you are thinking of doing this'."

 

"He knew the Pakistan side fluctuated in form, but he liked a challenge, and no one else tried to prevent him taking the job."

(Article: Copyright © 2007 AFP)