Dr Ere Seshaiah, chief consultant pathologist of the Jamaican government, told an inquest that Woolmer ‘died of asphyxia due to manual strangulation associated with Cy-permethrinide poisoning’. Cypermethrin is a pesticide used frequently in countries including the United Kingdom, China, Pakistan, India and Ban-gladesh, said Seshaiah, who had never before publicly linked Wool-mer's death to poisoning.
Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on March 18. Police started a murder investigation which ended on June 12 when Jamaica's police commissioner said the constabulary would accept the opinion of three independent pathologists that Woolmer had died of natural causes.
Seshaiah, an Indian national who has made Jamaica his home for more than 15 years, said that he never told police that the autopsy was inconclusive.
"At no time did I use the word inconclusive in any of my deliberations with the police," Seshaiah said under cross examination by Jamaica's director of public prosecutions Kent Pantry. "I told the police at the time that the autopsy was pending. I also never us-ed the word suspicious, which the police used early in their investigations," Seshaiah said.
