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Tests
showed traces of deadly pesticide in Woolmer, witness says |
Friday, November 9, 2007
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): Jamaican expert Fitzmore Coates
testified at the inquest into the death of ex-Pakistan
cricket coach Bob Woolmer that tests showed traces of
potentially deadly pesticide cypermethrin.
Coates, the acting chief forensic officer at the Government
Forensic Science Laboratory, said that two weeks ago he was
asked to provide an toxicology analysis of the Woolmer's
stomach contents. He said 3.4 milligrams per millilitre of
the deadly pesticide was found in the stomach.
"The final calculation of cypermethrin in the stomach
content which I analyzed would be significant. It could
cause vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and death," Coates said on
Thursday.
Last month, government pathologist Dr Ere Sheshiah, who
performed the post-mortem on Woolmer's body, told the court
the cause of death was "asphyxia, associated with
cypermethrin poisoning."
Coates also testified that he found cypermethrin in samples
of blood and urine taken from Woolmer.
He said the substance was also seen in a straw-coloured
liquid taken from his room at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.
On Monday, coroner Patrick Murphy ordered that samples taken
from the coach's body be re-examined by an independent
laboratory following a request from Deputy Commissioner of
Police Mark Shields, a lead investigator in the Woolmer's
case.
Contrary to Jamaican and Barbadian experts' findings, John
Slaughter, a British forensic expert, testified on Monday
that he found no pesticide in the sample which was tested in
his lab on May 4.
Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel
room on March 18.
Police started a murder investigation which ended on June 12
when Jamaica's police commissioner, then Lucius Thomas said
the constabulary would accept the opinion of three
independent pathologists that Woolmer had died of natural
causes.
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