Cricket: Jamaica's deputy police commissioner Mark Shields has rubbished media reports that a second post-mortem of Bob Woolmer's body has been ordered.
There were suggestions yesterday another second autopsy had been requested to reconfirm Woolmer was strangled after reports originating in Pakistan claimed the 58-year-old Englishman may have died of natural causes.
But, in an interview with Indian news station New Delhi Television, Shields insisted such talk was created by people wanting to keep the media happy.
"The short answer is that is not true," he responded when asked about a second autopsy. "We have not asked for a second post-mortem. At this point, ordering a second post-mortem would detract from the main track of inquiry.
"Any day that there's no new development, something is made up to keep the media happy. The reality is that we have a cause of death and we have an investigation to a murder.
"There has been no call for a second post-mortem. So, I do not know where that came from. If there was going to be a second post-mortem it could only be on two counts: if ordered by the coroner, but he has not done that; or secondly if we had a suspect in custody.
"But since we have no-one in custody, I don't know where that came from. It is another piece of unhealthy and unhelpful speculation."
Shields was then asked for the latest news on the analysis of the CCTV tapes outside Woolmer's hotel room.
"We are in the process of going through those tapes and I have seen some of the images myself," he said. "I am satisfied with the quality of most of it in that I was able to identify people that I met in the inquiry myself.
"However, a lot of work needs to be done because there are many hours of CCTV footage - from when Woolmer went to his room all the way through to when his body was found. We need to go through that literally second by second to make sure we do not miss any shred of evidence. So that is going to take time."