The Bob Woolmer case closes with no murder, no match fixing and no resignations

Detectives in Jamaica have officially closed the file on the 12-week investigation, led by former Scotland Yard officer Mark Shields.

Despite the fiasco, Mr Shields will not resign - nor will the pathologist who incorrectly announced that Mr Woolmer had been murdered.

The 58-year-old was found dead in his hotel room in Kingston on March 18. It was the morning after Pakistan, the team he coached, unexpectedly lost to Ireland.

There was immediate speculation that angry members of Pakistan squad could have been linked to his death.

Imran Khan, a former Pakistani skipper, said yesterday he was shocked there had been no apology to the team over those allegations.

He said the country's cricket board should sue those responsible for the "humiliation that the Pakistan team went through".

Jamaican Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas made the embarrassing admission - revealed exclusively in the Daily Mail on June 2 - that Mr Woolmer had died from natural causes alone in his hotel room.

He confirmed that Mr Woolmer was not, despite the speculation, strangled. Nor was he poisoned, drunk, or the victim of a shadowy match-fixing mafia.

The murder inquiry was launched after a Jamaican government pathologist wrongly declared that Mr Woolmer had been killed.

Last night, the career of pathologist Dr Ere Seshaiah was in doubt, with police pointing the finger of blame firmly at him. Four days after the death, Dr Seshaiah declared Mr Woolmer had died of asphyxiation as a result of manual strangulation.

During the course of the inquiry, police interviewed nearly 400 people and interviewed members of the Pakistan, Zimbabwe, West Indies and Ireland cricket teams who had been staying at the Pegasus Hotel.

Officers travelled to the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Barbados to conduct interviews, and to South Africa - where Mr Woolmer lived with his wife Gill.

But they also sought second opinions from independent pathologists in London, South Africa and Canada.

These all came up with the same conclusion - that Dr Seshaiah had got it wrong and that death was due to natural causes.

Jamaican police have mounted a robust defence of their actions and of their deputy commissioner, Mr Shields, who became the public face of the investigation.

Mr Shields said that he would "definitely not" be resigning.

"We conducted a thorough and professional investigation," he added. "People can say what they like. I will be judged on my work."