I don't know if this is significant or not.

The Commentary on BBC TMS was interupted with this newsaflash, or the jist at least.

Two members of the Pakistan are being questioned further, Inzi and a member of the coaching staff.

I don't know if this will affect the Pakistan team going home, or the two members mentioned.

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The coach is Mushtaq so i heard on another station.

I guess it was inevitable they would end up interviewing a couple of the party again at some point.We will have to wait and see what happens next.

9.50pm update

Inzamam questioned in Woolmer death probe



Staff and agencies
Saturday March 24, 2007
Guardian Unlimited


Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and assistant coach Mushtaq Ahmed were today questioned by police investigating the murder of Bob Woolmer, but the men have not been detained, according to the team's spokesman.

Both the BBC and Reuters news agency said the men were questioned by the Jamaican officers trying to discover who murdered Mr Woolmer in his hotel room on the island a week ago.

The Pakistan cricket team spokesman Pervez Jamil Mir said that "either the police overlooked something or they wanted to come back and talk a little bit more."

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"We're not going to take it to extremes to say that they might be detained or anything."

Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, speaking from Montego Bay, laughed off suggestions that the questioning put him under suspicion.

He told Sky News: "There is nothing special and we shall be going home."

He added that any suggestions that members of the Pakistan team were involved in Mr Woolmer's death were "unthinkable".

Inzamam said he had been asked just one question by the police who had told him that he was now "free to go home".

He said: "Everything is clear. He is just missing one question that he is asking me - that is it."

Asked if he could rule out the involvement of the Pakistan team, Inzamam said: "It is absolutely unthinkable, absolutely. What all these other people think is wrong. I can't think like this, if somebody thinks like this it is crazy."

Pakistan team manager Asad Mustafa meanwhile said Inzamam and Ahmed were completing formalities with police prior to their departure.

Jamaican police had already taken DNA samples and fingerprints from all Pakistan players as part of their investigation into Woolmer's death. Woolmer was found dead in his room at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston last Sunday.

Yesterday detectives said that Mr Woolmer probably knew his killer - or killers - as there was no sign of forced entry into his room. The news of the police questioning of Inzamam and Ahmed came just hours before the team were due to fly out of the Caribbean, via Kingston and London, back to Pakistan.


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The latest on the BBC 24 TV news is that the Pakistan manager was questioned as well, the BBC could not confirm that the trio would not be going home, the jamaca Police saying the questioning was just routine.

Howerever most news we have from Jamaca has has not been correct, and has led to speculation.

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On the BBC website, Inzi says he has been told he can go home. The site also says the team is due to leave at 2340GMT Saturday, so give it ten minutes and the speculation should be over on this point.

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Yes the way imformation has been handled has led to speculation, when it was clear Bob Woolmer had been murdered, the best way of scotching specualtion would have been to make public that imformation.

If the players are going home, then we can asssume the investigations are complete?.

The BBC TV news said that the forensic tests being carried out, would probably hold the clue to the killer(s), then we have heard all sorts of rumours.

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Just because people are allowed to leave doesn't mean investigations are over. The Pakistanis have been under the microscope of the press a lot today, it seems, but in fairness to everyone - police and the Pakistan team - normal practice anywhere would be to take fingerprints, DNA and so on for the purposes of eliminating people from enquiries. Just because they have all had their dabs taken, it doesn't mean they are suspects - part of the exercise is to say "We found this print on the tooth glass in Woolmer's bathroom. Wonder whose it is? Oh - it's yours, and we know you were in a night club at the material time, therefore that print is irrelevant."

I wouldn't read much into the fact that most of the Pakistani team are leaving tonight, Ern, nor would I read anything into it if some or all of them were asked to remain in Jamaica. There is a fundamental right of freedom of movement which the Jamaican authorities would only interfere with if they thought they might lose a suspect (i.e. they already have evidence to suspect someone, in which case they would seek legal authority to detain him or an assurance that they could get him back if he goes). My reading, for what it's worth (which is pretty close to zip), is that, if people are allowed to leave the country, either the police don't consider them suspects or they are confident of being able to get them back, either voluntarily or through legal process. Which, in the end, is as good as saying I don't have a clue what it means that the Pakistanis are leaving, or if it means anything at all! Any "conclusion" would be pure guesswork, I think.

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The additional questioning of the Pakistani team captain and their manager does not necessarily mean that either if them are under suspicion. This is a murder investigation, and the Police have to leave no stone unturned. The Police must have decided that in their capacity Inzi and Musthaq would have had to have many private discussions with Woolmer in the time leading up to and during the World Cup. The Police would want to know anything out of the ordinary that occured during that period, like the presence of other individuals who should not have been htere etc. Such things might give clues to eventual apprehending of the criminal.

Its becoming a bit like a Cricket version of Cluedo

Inzi in the bathroom with gloves