Daraine Luton, Sunday Gleaner Reporter

Captain of the Pakistan cricket team, Inzamam Ul-Haq, talks on his cell phone with luggage in one hand, as he alights from a tour bus at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, yesterday to board an Air Jamaica flight to London. Behind him is all-rounder Shahid Afridi. - Photo by Noel Thompson

ALL but two members of Pakistan's 22-member cricket delegation left the island yesterday for Heathrow Airport in London where they will connect with a flight to Asia. But not before the police conducted a second round of questioning with three members of the team into the death of their late coach Bob Woolmer.

Assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed, captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and manager Talat Ali were again subjected to police interrogation yesterday, but Deputy Commissioner of Police Shields said this was to clear up ambiguities in their earlier statements.

"We need to be absolutely thorough and clear and ensure that if there is any ambiguity in anybody's statement that we should clear up those ambiguities as soon as we possible can," DCP Shields said. "As far as I am aware the team is now freeto go," DCP Shields added, as the team was presumably on the way to the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James.

Stayed behind

Operations Manager Asad Mustafa and bio-kineticist Murray Stephenson have stayed back. According to Pakistani diplomat Zahid Chaudhri, "they are staying back, but purely on their own."

Both officials will remain indefinitely, presumably until Woolmer's body is released.

There were speculations that the Pakistan team may not have been allowed to leave the country due to the murder investigation of Woolmer. The police have said that the Pakistan team are not suspects even though they have all been interviewed, fingerprinted and have had their DNA taken. According to DCP Shields, this is standard procedure which has applied to everyone whom the police have taken statements from. DCP Shields said the police have still not yet found a suspect and the police have no reason to detain anyone at this point.

Tapes

The police have, however, not yet completed the analysis of CCTV tapes recovered from the hotel. Despite this DCP Shields insists that he has no reason to prevent the Pakistani's who stayed in the hotel with him from leaving. Police had suggested that Mr. Woolmer's killer or killers were known to him as there were no signs of forced entry.

On Friday the Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas ordered a coroner's inquest into Mr. Woolmer's death. The police also awaits toxicology and histology reports from tissue sample taken from Mr. Woolmer's body, but DCP Shields said these results will be secondary. "We have a cause of death. Anything to that is secondary, and may assist in the investigation, but there is no real point in rushing them," he said.

Icc official

An official from the ICC Anti-Corruption unit has already arrived in the island as part of the investigation. Pakistan has also sent two officials, Mr. Chaudhri, who is First Secretary at the Embassy of Pakistan based in Washington and Shahid Ahmed, to represent them while the police continue theirinvestigations.

It is uncertain when Mr. Woolmer's body will be repatriated to his wife Gill in South Africa as the coroner has ordered that the body remains in his jurisdiction. Mr. Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his hotel room last Sunday, hours after his team lost to minnows Ireland in their Group D clash at Sabina Park, which effectively knocked the 1992 winners out of the tournament.