Woolmer killer may be on Jamaica hotel video

March 29, 2007

Kingston, Jamaica - Bob Woolmer's killer be on a surveillance tape taken by a hotel camera.

Investigators trying to determine who killed Pakistan's cricket coach have nearly finished poring over enhanced video taken from closed-circuit television cameras from stairwells and corridors in the hotel where he was found, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields said Wednesday.

The images are clear enough to recognize faces, and investigators are closing in on coach Woolmer's time of death, Shields said in a CNN interview.

On March 18, Woolmer was found unconscious in his 12th-floor room at the Pegasus Hotel and was taken to the University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The pathologist's report said he had been strangled. Shields said that, though he could not rule out the possibility that the report was wrong, he had "great confidence" in that conclusion. He added that he had "very specific evidence" that Woolmer was murdered.