Cricket coach's body is released

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The body of murdered Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been released by the coroner, Jamaican police revealed.

He was found dead in his Kingston hotel on 18 March, the day after his side lost to Ireland in the World Cup.

The body of Mr Woolmer, who is thought to have been strangled, is likely to be returned to his family in South Africa.

The inquest had been set for 23 April but the Jamaican government announced on Friday that it had been delayed indefinitely.

The reason for the delay remained undisclosed.

Police investigating the 58-year-old's murder had sent CCTV images to Scotland Yard for further consideration.

A team of four officers from Scotland Yard are in Jamaica to help with the inquiry, following a formal request from the Jamaican authorities.

Pakistan also sent as an observer senior police investigator Mir Zubair Mahmood, who led the investigation into the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi.

He and another security official had come at the request of the Jamaican government, an official said.

Two forensic experts from Interpol, the France-based international police agency, have also been helping the investigation.

Jamaica's deputy police commissioner Mark Shields has said the foreign investigators will help with DNA analysis and also examine theories that Mr Woolmer may have been poisoned before being strangled.