Inzamam Questioned in Woolmer Death Probe

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."

"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.