Ross Sheil, Staff Reporter

Mark Shields, Deputy Commissioner of Police, takes questions from journalists yesterday at a news conference called to update the media on the Bob Woolmer murder investigation. - Norman Grindley/ Deputy Chief Photographer

The Scotland Yard team sent to Jamaica to review the investigation into the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer will return to the United Kingdom tomorrow, having submitted their report to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). At the same time, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mark Shields, said that investigators were now in possession of some results from toxicology tests done on Woolmer's body.

Detective Inspector John Sweeney, who leads the Scotland Yard team, remains in the island with Detective Sergeant Andrew Beet. Detective Inspector Dean Lawrence and Scene-of-Crime-Manager Joe Marchesi left on Friday.

Further analysis

Speaking at a press conference at the Police Officers' Club in St. Andrew, called yesterday to update the media - the first for two weeks - DCP Shields said other results from the toxicology tests "would have to go for further analysis and investigation".

"It's been, I think, two weeks since we had a press briefing and the reason for that is that there has been simply nothing to report," said DCP Shields, stressing what he said was the openness of the investigation.

He said an immediate breakthrough was unlikely: "I said that there were three things that could happen: one is that someonecould give themselves up; two, that there would be a massive breakthrough; or three that we're here for the long haul and at the moment we're certainly in category three."

Woolmer, 58, was found naked and unconscious in the bathroom of his hotel room at 10:45 a.m. on Sunday March 18. He was pronounced dead at the University Hospital of the West Indies at 12:14 p.m. He was last seen alive at 7:30 p.m. on that Saturday, a few hours after Cricket World Cup 2007 minnows Ireland had beaten his Pakistan team, knocking them out in the group stage. He went back to his room and ordered room service some time between 8 and 9 p.m. and using his laptop sent an e-mail, believed to be to his wife.

Yesterday DCP Shields said there were many potential suspects and even more witnesses that needed to be traced. He declined to speculate on a potential motive or the nature of the attack. He reiterated that the work of the review team, lead by Detective Inspector John Sweeney, having made several recommendations, was standard operating procedure, and that that the investigation was proceeding normally albeit gradually increasing in size and scope. Thirty officers are working full time on the case with 100 witness statements now collected.

CCTV footage results

He said that results from the CCTV footage had already been produced with the assistance of Scotland Yard.

"I now have some results which are excellent and give us a clearer view of people's movement in the Pegasus Hotel and elsewhere," DCP Shields said.

He disclosed that the two Pakistani police officers sent here to help the investigation would likely remain for another two weeks, adding that further questions would need to be asked of the Pakistan cricket team and in Pakistan in general.

In reference to Mr. Woolmer's wife Jill , DCP Shields said that she continued to bear the stress "remarkably well".

ross.sheil@gleanerjm.com