The whole episode must be one of the most bizarre news stories of all time.

So Bob died of natural causes after all, which is what I originally believed. What changed my mind was that there was supposed to be evidence of strangulation and poisoning which has now mysteriously disappeared. I fail to understand how this could have happened.

You can only sympathise with his family. An untimely death is difficult enough to come to terms with at the best of times, without it being turned into a media circus and something akin to an unlikely film plot.

But Anthony... which is the better story?

This century, that's all that matters.

Indeed JK. It isn't the behaviour of the media which shocks me on this occasion, but the police and pathologists. The press didn't entirely make this story up. There was a murder investigation.

We all know that police services are far beyond reproach, with all the appalling wrongful convictions around the world, but there was no malice here, just astonishing incompetence.

And I can promise you something Anthony - what's important to police all over the world?

"Is it a good story?".

Natural death? Suicide?

No kudos for police there.

All that media exposure for that remote, anonymous Jamaican British cop? MAGIC! Just because of that one little word...

MURDER!

And of course the conspiracists view has to be included..


Well something very fishy was going on in one of the most boring cricket tournaments ever.

It will never end this story.

In a hundred years time it will still be "A" level History.

"Compare and Contrast etc etc.."

but is this the end of the story? Who knows?
Was the last version tue - or is this one? Maybe the NEXT version will be the truth !

PS Diana - death in the tunnel (and why "they" are desperate NOT to have an inquest until everyone who can remember it is dead !) - next Wednesday C4 at 9pm (unless the government ban it in the meantime) !

Lest we forget, what a wonderful cricketer he was though.
In 1975(?), I could not concentrate at school to see if he had saved the game for England at the Oval, which he did.
I applaud Bob Woolmer and others for taking positions with other national teams for being their coaches of different nationalities and, at a difficult time for the Pakistan cricket team as well, that team did not need anymore controversy.

I would have hated to be away from my family and friends in a tournament(tour) as long as he was ,and failure would not have been easy to take by, peers etc.

With due thought, I don`t except the conspiracy theory, I accept the medical verdict.

It`s very difficult being alone in hotel rooms.

As regards Diana, there is a strong possibility that many of us will die of boredom.

chrissy wrote:
As regards Diana, there is a strong possibility that many of us will die of boredom.

That's just what "they" want you to do.

Die of boredom by the story ... or die before we actually get an inquest?

This has to be the greatest murder mystery of the century.

Well I was presuming we might have this debate here. I don't buy that she was murdered. I also very much doubt an inquest would tell us anything that we don't already know. What I don't understand is why she would be murdered, and by whom? I'm not suggesting for one moment that the powers that be are not capable of conspiracy plots and cover ups. The David Kelly case stinks to high heaven. I'm not even convinced that poor old Robin Cook tumbled off Ben Stack unaided, but I'm not so sure about the Diana case. Of course I may be wrong. As Manuel might say "I know nothing."