Arrest made in woolmer case-reports

An arrest has been made following confirmation by Jamaican Police that they are treating the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer as murder, according to New Delhi Television.

Chief of Geo TV Hamid Mir, speaking to Ndtv, stated the person is not a Jamaican national and that Police have confiscated his telephone.

Police are unwilling to reveal more details, but it is reported Woolmer was working on his autobiography at the time and it is reported some pages are missing.

Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious by staff at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on Sunday morning, the day after Pakistan's shock defeat to Ireland in the Cricket World Cup, and taken to hospital where he later died.

Police revealed on Tuesday that they were treating the former England batsman's death as "suspicious."

They initially stopped short of saying that he had been murdered but, at a press conference on Thursday evening, revealed Woolmer's death "was due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation."