Footage of the closed circuit television (CCTV), on the 12th floor of the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, where the body of Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, was found on March 18, was last week sent to a laboratory in the United Kingdom by Scotland Yard detectives who are here assisting with the investigation.

This was confirmed yesterday by a high-ranking officer of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

The Gleaner also spoke with a member of the investigative team who stressed that experts in the U.K. will take a deeper look at the footage, among other items of interest.

Up to press time last night the team of investigators probing the Woolmer case was locked in a meeting.

Footage not clear

Reports were that the CCTV footage were not clear. However, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields denied this claim and said he could easily identified people who traversed the corridor on the 12th floor.

Local detectives spent hours recently transferring hours of footage from VHS tape into a digital format.

The four Scotland Yard detectives who are on the island assisting with the Woolmer investigation were invited at the request of Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas.

This is not the first time Jamaican police have invited Scotland Yard to assist with murder investigations.

In 2004, Scotland Yard detectives were called in to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of senior citizens, 63-year-old David Bacchas and 65-year-old Cecil Brown, who were controversially killed by the police in Flankers, St. James in 2003.

The police involved were later acquitted.

Scotland Yard detectives were also called in to investigate another controversial police killing of four persons in Kraal, Clarendon in 2003.

In 2005, a 12-member jury freed the five policemen of the murder charge.