Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer, who died of strangulation earlier this year, was also poisoned, a BBC investigation has learned. The gun shots might have contributed something, too...
The results of toxicology tests mean it now seems certain the ex-England player was rendered helpless before being strangled, the Panorama programme says.
After which he was apparently flung from a 21st story window...
| Which is an odd thing in itself as the hotel has only eighteen stories... |
Caught the driver of the truck that ran him over, did they?
Now a Panorama investigation has learned that a toxicology report on Woolmer's body shows that there was a drug in his body that would have incapacitated him.
They've found the puncture wound from the dart. Now, if they can just tie it to the blowgun...
The final results of the report are due to be
"It's iocaine powder! I'd bet my life on it!"
The policeman leading the murder investigation, Mark Shields, told Panorama that it is "difficult and it's rare" for one man to strangle another. "A lot of force would be needed to do that. Bob Woolmer was a large man and that's why one could argue that it was an extremely strong person or maybe more than one person. But equally the lack of external injuries suggests that there might be some other factors and that's what we're looking into at the moment."
"One theory is that the knife between his shoulder blades might have been related to his demise. Now, if we could just figure how...!"