Bob Woolmer Murdered!

[chesters1]

i'm sure its not such a big story unless you like cricket ,people are murdered (if thats the case) all the time without all the fuss some barely known outside his proffesion "celeb" is!

was it murder or an accident (we dont know what he was up to at the time) ?

[Guest Rabbit]

i'm sure its not such a big story unless you like cricket ,people are murdered (if thats the case) all the time without all the fuss some barely known outside his proffesion "celeb" is!

was it murder or an accident (we dont know what he was up to at the time) ?

 

It IS a big story, thats why it is headline news on the TV and papers, whether you like cricket or not. But it is an International event and he was a coach of one of the biggest cricket countries in the world. We dont know what he was up to at the time, if he ''up to'' anything, but he paid a terrible price whatever it was.

[Elton]

Before there are any screams of stuff being removed for no reason, bad reasons, whatever, I have set 9 posts on here invisible until Elton can have a look. Several could be cause for libel issues and the rest quoted those.

 

I am not sure there is anything that must be removed but the items can easily be reset to visible in a few seconds.

 

I'll leave them invisible.

 

Hopefully, the thread can stay open. This has been one of the lead headlines tonight, again.

[Guest Rabbit]

I'll leave them invisible.

 

Hopefully, the thread can stay open. This has been one of the lead headlines tonight, again.

So it is, just hearing on five live radio an interview with Sahriah Kahn a cricket big wig who indicated that Bob Woolmer was frustrated with the number of prayers the players committed themselves to in a day, five time at least, he felt this was a distraction to the focus they needed to compete.

He also admitted that Woolmer was at odds with the Pakistani capltain Inzamahn Al Haq, Inzamahn has always been the natural and spiritual leader to the players and supporters of Pakistan. To speculate any further as to what happened in that hotel room would probably get this comment pulled...but imagine the frustration and anger Bob Woolmer must have felt with losing to a cricket minnow as Ireland, perhaps religion was the real reason he died.

Edited March 25, 2007 by Rabbit

[Sportsman]

I would have thought all that praying should have ensured a victory

[UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk]

RIP Bob Woolmer

 

The CCTV from what I can gather has had to be digitised which needed specialists for - NEWT can probably confirm this but it may well be each floor on the hotel recorded frames on a rotational basis which creates a very jumbled video recording where every nth frame correlates to one camera - basically this needs to be extracted and put back together, and then posssibly some form of noise reduction etc if post processing is needed - you may well lose a day, especially if the equipment doing the recording isn't spot on.

 

In terms of strangulation I am no expert BUT believe that it isn't always 'immediately' clear - just from CSI (which I appreciate isn't rocket science) I have picked up that bruising from strangulation can take two clear days to come up, and on a larger person (Bob would agree he was larger I think) then presumably bruising will be a longer process. Yes, there is internal evidence, but then you are back to the autopsy results. Lets not forget folks, you can have as many marks around your neck as you like but if there is a knife sticking out your ribs it doesn't mean you were strangled to death - procedure dictates that the cause of death has to be established, and with someone 'unwell' with diabetes and a potential heart condition then I am sure a pathologist would have to 'completely eliminate' natural causes before considering murder.

 

In a more general nature the moots about match fixing have raised a more interesting debate in my opinion which is the current state of betting in sports. In horse racing there are VERY CLEAR rules about trying to win - a jockey which doesn't ride out a horse can (and did just last week) pick up a ban for not trying, as can the trainer and the horse itself! I've seen cricket, snooker, football and a multitude of other sports where, in my opinion, the teams and certain individuals should have been forced to 'explain their performances'. If it was a friendly contest then no worries, but when people have millions riding on it around the world, you do start to wonder when you see people walking out on events, retiring hurt, playing very loose cricket shots, missing wide open goals.

 

Anyone who has seen professional boxing will have seen those 113-117, 116-116, and 116-114 scorecards i.e. where one judge has gave eight rounds to one boxer and two to the other, another judge has given it a tie, and another judge has given four six the other way round. It's either very bad judging (ahem, bad for gambling) or sheer fixing (ahem, bad for gamling). I don't gamble by the way - just think that when money is on the line people ought to get fair and honest performances (and accountable ones) from their sportsmen.