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Another
Witness, another contradictory finding in the Woolmer
inquest - re-testing shows no poison in the body. |
November 14,
2007 -KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): An expert witness
disputed earlier testimony by telling a inquest that he was
unable to find any traces of the deadly pesticide
cypermethrin in samples taken from ex-cricket coach Bob
Woolmer.
"No cypermethrin was found in the adequate samples from the
forensic lab," professor Das Gupta said on Monday.
Gupta, head of the pesticide research laboratory at the
University of West Indies, conducted a series of re-tests
November 6 and 7 on blood samples taken from the body of the
former Pakistan cricket coach.
Gupta said he re-tested eight samples from government
laboratory and another five from the United Kingdom.
Last week, coroner Patrick Murphy ordered that the samples
be re-tested.
Gupta's findings support those of British forensic scientist
John Slaughter, who also said he was unable to find
cypermethrin in blood samples. |
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But Gupta's
testimony contrasts with that of other witnesses, including
Fitzmore Coates, acting chief forensic officer at the
Jamaican federal laboratory, who said there was so much
potentially deadly cypermethrin in Woolmer's system that it
could have caused his death.
Gupta said Coates' analysis was flawed.
"I found his data very puzzling and his analysis was not
proper," Gupta said adding the quality of the samples may
have been as good when he conducted his tests compared to
the time they were first tested in March.
Woolmer, a former England batsman was found unconscious in
his Jamaica hotel room on March 18, a day after his Pakistan
team was humiliated by Ireland in the Cricket World Cup.
Woolmer was pronounced dead at the University of West Indies
hospital but an autopsy called the death suspicious and then
murder, which sparked an intense manhunt by Jamaican police
until a review reversed the findings.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields is expected to
take the stand on Tuesday. |
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