Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter

Pakistan's cricket team vice-captain, Younis Khan, is nearly mobbed as he arrives at Quaid-a-Azam International airport in Karachi last night. Many of Pakistan's Cricket World Cup team remained in London yesterday, ahead of their scheduled return home, following their early dismissal from the ICC Cricket World Cup, as well as the unsolved murder of their coach, Bob Woolmer. - Reuters

THE CORONER'S office is still awaiting a report from the police five days after the Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas ordered a coroner's inquiry into the death of the former Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer.

Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Jamaica Pegasus hotel room last week Sunday, the day after Pakistan crashed out of the ICC Cricket World Cup. He was pronounced dead at hospital.

A subsequent post-mortem found that Mr. Woolmer was strangled.

Checks with the coroner's office yesterday revealed that coroner Patrick Murphy had not yet received the report from the polic they have begun the process of summoning potential jurors.

However, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of crime, Mark Shields, said the report, which is "virtually ready" will be sent "as soon as possible".

Asked if this meant by the end of the week, Mr. Shields told The Gleaner: "Certainly. Yes, yes."

Mr. Woolmer's body, which is being stored at a local funeral parlour, will remain in the jurisdiction of coroner until the inquest is completed. Thereafter it will be expatriated to Cape Town, South Africa where he lived with his wife Gill and two sons.

Meanwhile, the police said they are still in the process of analysing CCTV footage recovered from the hotel.

Despite there being a 18-hour window between the time Mr. Woolmer retired to his room and the time when he was found, DCP Shields said "the process is going to take some time" as the police have to analyse the tape frame by frame.

He said there was no truth to Indian media reports that two players were seen on the 12th floor in the wee hours of the morning, suggesting that they may be involved in the murder.

Meanwhile, DCP Shields has been quoted on the BBC as saying Woolmer's killer or killers are unlikely to be Jamaicans because locals "favoured weapons" were knives and guns.

"It seems highly unlikely a Jamaican has walked off the street, gone up to the 12th floor in a secure lift, gone along to his (Woolmers') room, got into his room without any sign of forced entry, murdered him and then not stolen anything at all," Shields told BBC.

Asked by The Gleaner to clarify his statement, DCP Shields said "it is hugely unlikely, but it is still possible".

Asked if he had stereotyped Jamaicans to be thieves, DCP Shields said no.

"If it ... was a criminal and they are going to go into a room, then the likelihood is that if they are going to kill somebody they would do it for stealing property," DCP Shields said.

Police had said that there were no signs of forced entry to Mr. Woolmer's room and that nothing was stolen from inside.

Since Mr. Woolmer's death, there have been speculation about the reason for his death. One suggestion is that he was killed because he was about to reveal information about match-fixing.

DCP Shields said the police are exploring this theory. He said that police have been assigned to work along side Jeff Rees of the ICC Anti-Corruption unit.

"We are exploring the possibility of match fixing but that is only one line of inquiry," he said.

Mr. Woolmer's laptop computer has been seized by the police and is been analysed for clues.

Meanwhile, the two Pakistani diplomats, Zahid Chaudhri and Shahid Ahmed, who arrived on Saturday on the invitation of the Jamaican government met with National Security minister Dr. Peter Phillips and Foreign Affairs Minister Anthony Hilton yesterday.

These diplomats leave the island today even though they had said on Saturday that they will be here for as long as possible to aid the investigation.