POLICE investigating the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer have not proved he was murdered, a Pakistani detective attached to the case says.
Deputy police inspector general Mir Zubair Mehmood told the BBC that the probe had so far been inconclusive.
He was one of two Pakistani policemen sent to help police in the West Indies.
Woolmer was found dead in his hotel in Jamaica after Pakistan's first-round exit from the cricket World Cup. Police there said he had been murdered.
The man leading the investigation into Mr Woolmer's death had earlier played down similar remarks Mr Mehmood was reported to have made to news agencies.
Jamaica's deputy police commissioner Mark Shields told the BBC that he had spoken to the Pakistani detective who denied that he had made any comments on the investigation.
Mr Shields said that Mr Mehmood had every confidence in the Jamaican police and he believed the two men had a good relationship.
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Mr Mehmood said the investigation was confidential and to share it woulde be "unethical".
"But I can say that at this point no one can say it was a murder," he told the BBC.
He said the results of several tests sent to Scotland Yard were awaited: "The most I can say is that the investigation in Woolmer's case is inconclusive."
Mr Mehmood has led several high-profile investigations, including the inquiry into the murder of US journalist, Daniel Pearl.
Woolmer, a former England cricketer, was found dead in his Jamaica hotel room on March 18.
A post-mortem examination showed that he died of strangulation. Some reports said he was also incapacitated by some kind of poison before he was strangled.
Mr Woolmer's body was returned to South Africa late last month. He was cremated last Friday.
No-one has yet been arrested in connection with his death, which overshadowed the cricket World Cup.
Police are still working to identify those captured on security camera footage from the hotel where he died. (BBC Sports)