Poison 'weakened Woolmer'

News24 said:

Poison 'weakened Woolmer'

London - Murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was poisoned before being strangled, rendering him powerless to fight back against his killer, the BBC will say in a programme on Monday.

According to the broadcaster's flagship investigative show Panorama, preliminary drug tests revealed a substance in Woolmer's body that would have weakened him.

Woolmer, 58, was found dead in his Kingston hotel room on March 18, the day after cricketing powers Pakistan crashed out of the World Cup in an upset loss to minnows Ireland.

The officer leading the investigation, Jamaican Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields, told programme makers that it would have been difficult to strangle a man the size of Woolmer, who is six-feet two-inches tall.

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