Who Murdered Gentleman Bob? ; Briton Strangled in His Hotel Could Have Been Ready to Reveal Murky Secrets of Cricket's Match-Fixing Mafia
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BOB WOOLMER had endured the longest and loneliest night of his career as an international cricket coach. He was unable to sleep after seeing his team, Pakistan, lose a World Cup match to the rank amateurs of Ireland a humiliation greeted in Lahore by the ritual burning of his effigy and chants of 'death to Woolmer'.
So the 58-year-old Briton whiled away the early hours on his laptop computer. His last known contact with anyone beyond the confines of his 12th-floor room in the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica, came in a plaintive email to his wife, Gill, six time zones away at their home in Cape Town.See the full content of this document
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Who Murdered Gentleman Bob? ; Briton Strangled in His Hotel Could Have Been Ready to Reveal Murky Secrets of Cricket's Match-Fixing Mafia
Dispatched at 3.12am, the message told of Woolmer's despair over a defeat which will go down as one of the great sporting upsets. 'He was really depressed and couldn't believe how this could have happened,' Mrs Woolmer says.
Seven hours and 33 minutes after he pressed the Send button, Bob Woolmer was found dead.A chambermaid using her pass key found his naked body splayed out in the bathroom. The white tiles were spattered with blood and vomit, and there were cuts on the bridge of his nose and face.Though there were ...See the full content of this document
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