Memorial service held for Woolmer

Some 200 people attended the service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in the eastern city of Lahore, the home of Pakistani cricket. One minute of silence was observed, candles were lit and prayers offered.

Pakistani cricketers and officials of Pakistan Cricket Board were among those attending the service.

Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on March 18 and pronounced dead at a hospital on the morning after his team's elimination from the Cricket World Cup in a surprising loss to Ireland. Jamaican police have blamed Woolmer's death on strangulation.

"God rest you, Bob, God rest you, and until we meet again, good bye," said Rev Lawrence Saldanha, the Catholic archbishop of Lahore, who led the prayers for Woolmer.

Meanwhile, rumours are rife over how the coach was killed - or even it seems, if he was murdered at all.

A post mortem showed Woolmer had died of "manual strangulation", but a lack of marks or bruising on his neck led to speculation the murder inquiry was unwarranted, especially since the first pathology report said the cause of death was inconclusive.

Jamaica's Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields said the absence of marks suggested the killer did not strangle Woolmer with his bare hands, and there were subsequent newspaper reports that a hotel towel, found close to Woolmer's body could have been used.

In a new turn of events, it was reported that police had found a blood-stained pillow in Woolmer's hotel room. Mr Shields has refused to divulge what items police recovered from the scene.

One of the latest theories is that Woolmer was not strangled, but poisoned by a drug called aconite, which causes asphyxiation by shutting down internal organs and slowing the breathing until it stops. Toxicology reports are now being awaited.