Petrina Francis and Daraine Luton, Staff Reporters

The Jamaica Constabulary Force will break its silence this week over the raging controversy that it, along with government pathologist Dr. Ere Sheshiah, bungled the investigation into the cause of the death of Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer.

The 58-year-old Woolmer was found dead in his Jamaica Pegasus hotel room on March 18, hours after Pakistan crashed out of the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup. The police first reported Sheshiah's finding that the cause of death was inconclusive; but shortly after, it changed this to death by manual strangulation, and proceeded to search for the murderer(s) of the Pakistan coach. However, several weeks later, reports out of London said British Government pathologist Dr. Nat Cary concluded that Woolmer had not been strangled, but had died of heart failure.

Armed with several pathology reports prepared abroad, National Security Minister Dr. Peter Phillips, along with Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas, will seek to close the case on Woolmer's death at a press conference on Tuesday. Whatever the findings contained in these reports, Sheshiah's conduct of the initial post-mortem on Woolmer's body is bound to come under scrutiny.

A highly placed police source told The Sunday Gleaner three days after Woolmer's death that Sheshiah had found a broken bone in the coach's neck, which suggested that someone might have placed pressure on it. Subsequent reports out of the United Kingdom indicated that this bone - the hyoid - was removed from the body before it was cremated.

The Daily Mail newspaper in the U.K. reported on Thursday that the Pakistan cricket team has demanded an apology from the Jamaican police, as reports swirled that they will announce on Tuesday that coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered. Pakistan team spokesman P.J. Mir said he had always believed Woolmer died of natural causes, and accused the police of marring the World Cup with the murder investigation.