So Woolmer was poisioned...

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/woolmer/content/current/story/316585.html


It all gets murkier and murkier...

All he said was a "foreign substance" was detected in Woolmer's body.

It could have been something to do with Woolmer's diabetes.

THICKEDGE wrote:http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/woolmer/content/current/story/316585.html


It all gets murkier and murkier...

Probably not the sort of stuff you'd use if you were a highly professional killer. Pyrethroids tend to be very unpleasant-tasting and not all that toxic to humans. You'd have to hold a guy down and force a fair amount of it down his throat. Accidental low-level exposure would not have been unusual.

Henry wrote:All he said was a "foreign substance" was detected in Woolmer's body.

It could have been something to do with Woolmer's diabetes.

More likely a pesticide used in the hotel or where the team was practising.

mynah wrote:

Henry wrote:All he said was a "foreign substance" was detected in Woolmer's body.

It could have been something to do with Woolmer's diabetes.

More likely a pesticide used in the hotel or where the team was practising.

Such as that used on grass? Shine one cricket ball and ingest a pesticide?

And it's unlikely that he swallowed/inhaled enough to kill himself. Anyone who works on and around well maintained fields of grass day in, day out is likely to have some sort of pesticide in their system.

Shoeshine wrote:

mynah wrote:

Henry wrote:All he said was a "foreign substance" was detected in Woolmer's body.

It could have been something to do with Woolmer's diabetes.

More likely a pesticide used in the hotel or where the team was practising.

Such as that used on grass? Shine one cricket ball and ingest a pesticide?

It's used to kill both ants and cockroaches, so could have been employed in various places. The amount in his system should be telling, though.

Possibly some black magic ritual then?

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1677.htm

... on organophosphate poisoning.

more here from the original pathologist...

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKN2436190620071025

lardbucket wrote:http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1677.htm

... on organophosphate poisoning.

Quite a difference between cypermethrin and sarin, though.

Foreign substances, eh? Happen he believed Shoaib when he said it was sherbet and scoffed the lot?

Still many contradictions...

Did we ever get to the bottom of this?

We should've had a poll.