Besides Woolmer, Arafat Pope Clement Henry were killed by Aconite KGB tactic
Cricket legend was killed by drug from ancient plant Cops believe it was sprinkled on his sleeping pills. It would have taken 30mins for him to die in agony. Bob Woolmer was poisoned by an ancient drug used by witches in the Middle Ages, investigators believe.
After weeks of investigations, the sensational Bob Woolmer murder case has shown signs of a breakthrough with ‘The Independent’, Digital enhancement of security camera footage from the 12th floor of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, where Woolmer was staying, has identified at least one suspect in the killing. The suspect is a male but the police have declined to comment if he is a member of the Pakistan team or the management.
Suspect killer is caught on camera
"The time of the footage and its location mean that this individual must be considered a suspect. Further work is being done on statements given by individuals to look at any inconsistencies. It is good progress," a source close to the investigation told the newspaper.
Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room on March 18, a day after Pakistan's loss to Ireland, but the local police have struggled to develop lasting leads in the murder case. Scotland Yard and Pakistan detectives and a DNA expert from Interpol have joined the investigation. The police believe Woolmer was strangled but poisoning has also been a popular theory and there have been regular reports of links to match-fixing.
Poisoned by Harry Potter aconite
Bob Woolmer, the father-of-two, whose embalmed body remains in Kingston awaiting release, was found early on 18 March, lying naked in the bathroom of his hotel room with traces of vomit on the floor. "The toxicology tests show that he had significant traces of aconite. We are now entirely convinced he was poisoned.
Aconite - an ancient poison, also known as Wolfsbane - is said to be perfect for concealing murder and has been used in several high-profile assassinations in Pakistan. Wolfsbane is mentioned in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', when the schoolboy wizard is quizzed on it by Professor Snape.
England player was drugged with an ancient poison
A suspect in the murder of the Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been identified from security camera footage in his hotel, amid growing evidence that the former England player was drugged with an ancient poison. The death of Mr Woolmer, who had already decided to resign his role, came amid claims that the former Kent and England player had fallen foul of a match-fixing syndicate he was about to expose.
Woolmer’s killing breakthrough the phone from Pakistan
The breakthrough comes after a man, thought to be from Pakistan, phoned police on Monday claiming that aconite killed the former Kent and England star.
The man did not give his name or give a reason for the murder.
"The man who called Kingston police station had a Pakistani accent and was very specific about aconite and how it was administered.
Woolmer killed to use aconite
Toxicologists say aconite, which is referred to in the Harry Potter books as wolfsbane, is the "perfect" drug to mask a murder.
It causes the victim's internal organs to seize and slows down their breathing until they finally stop.
Death is usually by asphyxiation within 30 minutes and this explains, police believe, how 16-stone Woolmer died without putting up a fight.
It also explains why Jamaican pathologist Dr Ere Sheshaiah found no marks around his neck to suggest he had been strangled.
"The symptoms Bob suffered before he died are identical to aconite poisoning, which is why it is a major line of inquiry now. It would also explain how such a physically imposing man, at 6ft 1in tall, died without putting up a fight.
Toxicologist Prof John Henry, of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, said: "Woolmer would have felt nauseous after the drug began to work and would have gone to the bathroom to be sick. He wouldn't have realised straight away how serious his condition was, so it was doubtful he'd have phoned the hotel's reception.
"By the time he realised how ill he was it would be too late."He would have collapsed and been unable to move. The drug causes a loss of power in the limbs."
"It is the perfect drug to make a murder appear to be a suicide because it leaves no mark on the body. It is difficult to detect in a post-mortem.
The examiner would have to know what they were looking for.
"It would still be in a person's system after their death but it would not show up in a post-mortem unless it was specifically looked for."
Uses of aconite in Pakistan
The fact that aconite has also previously been used in Pakistan may also be highly relevant," The Sun quoted a senior police source as saying.
A well known politician Omar Asghar Khan, 48, found hanging from a ceiling fan.
Other victims are thought to include Pakistan's ex-PM Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, found dead in a Lebanese hotel in 1963, and the country's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah's sister Fatima. Canadian actor Andre Noble, 25, died in 2004 after accidentally eating part of the plant.
Benazir Bhuto’s both brothers are in exile, Shah Nawaz and Mir Murtaza, tried and convicted of high crimes in absentia. When Shah Nawaz was killed by poison in France in 1986, she suspected it was done by Zia ul-haq’s agents.
Match fixing behind the death of bob Woolmer
The revelation fuels the suspicion Woolmer was killed as he was about to expose match-fixing.
Senator Anwar Beg of Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Sports told the Sunday Mirror: "Some members of the Pakistan cricket team are involved in match fixing."
KGB legacy of poison politics
"This case of poisoning Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is not an isolated one at all," says Andrei Piontkovsky, head of the Center for Strategic Studies in Moscow. "This practice was routine for the KGB in Soviet times, and I don't think their successors have higher moral standards."
Oleg Kalugin, a cold war defector who now lives in America, told the London Sunday Times in 2002. "I recall in the old Soviet days the KGB planned to assassinate some people by putting poisonous gel on the door handle of a car."
Further back in history, Stalin's secret police staged a car crash in 1948, to kill Solomon Mikhoels, a Soviet Yiddish actor and theater director, and head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. Another famous case was that of the well-known pro-Bolshevik novelist Maxim Gorky, who died in 1936. The secret police chief at the time confessed to poisoning him at his trial two years later.
Even Boris Yeltsin, who later became president, once claimed in 1990 that he had been grabbed while walking and thrown off a bridge into the Moscow River. He showed up at a friend's place bruised, in tattered clothes, and soaking wet.
More recently two different journalists covering the Beslan hostage crisis in September say they were drugged - one on a plane, another during an FSB interrogation - to prevent their coverage of the story. Medical tests later confirmed one of the cases.
Arafat poisoned
As reported by ‘British Intelligence’ on Nov 28, 2004: The late PA chief Yasser Arafat was poisoned with a widely known toxic substance termed as “Acontine”, which is usually extracted from an Asian plant called “Aconite”, a report, issued recently by the British intelligence, disclosed.
The report said that the same substance, which could instantly dissolve in liquids, couldn’t be forensically detected in human body 12 hours after its penetration into it.The same poison causes fatal symptoms in the blood circulation, nervous, and digestive systems, according to the report.
It’s probable that Arafat was gradually poisoned, as 3 to 5 mgs of that poison is enough to cause his death, it highlighted, and noted that one of his top aides might have sneaked such a substance into his meals during the holy month of Ramadan, causing his slow death as was the case with the former Algerian president Hawari Boumaddine.Well-informed Palestinian sources, meanwhile, revealed that the US administration had refused to receive Arafat at “Mayo Clinic” hospital, as his illness coincided with the holding of the US presidential elections.The administration had already been acquainted with the nature of Arafat’s disease, therefore, it declined to receive him at that hospital so as not be embarrassed by his death, according to the sources.
King Henry and Pope Clement were poisoned
A toxicologist at the Hawaii State Department of Health reminds us that many kings of the past died young owing to poison. "Several Roman emperors and eligible candidates for emperor were done in by poison. Soaking a candle wick in arsenic or aconite (an alkaloid derived from a plant known as monkshood or wolfsbane), drying the wick, then making a candle out of it, was a popular Middle Ages technique. Lighting such a candle would produce deadly vapors. Aconite would cause irregular heartbeat, chest pain, and death within hours. This method was supposed to have killed Pope Clement VII in 1534 and Emperor Leopold I of Austria in 1705. Pope Clement was 56 years old and Emperor Leopold was 65 years old at the times of their deaths, so their deaths could have been from natural causes. However, for possible motives for murder, Clement was the Pope who alienated King Henry the 8th of England by declaring that Henry's marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon was still valid, which led to England's split from the Catholic Church, and Leopold's Austria was at war with Louis the XIV's France when Leopold died."
ACONITE
Family name: Ranunculaceae; Botanical name: Aconitum chasmanthum, heterophyllum; Name (Urdu): Monkshood, Atees, Meeta Zahar; Name in English: Aconite; Oher local names: Bezhumolo, Zhadwar
Under the restrictions of the 1968 Medicines Act in US, aconite in lotion form must not exceed 1.3 parts of aconite to 100 parts of lotion. To be effective, the therapeutic dose is so close to the toxic level that it should never be used internally and external application should never be done over broken skin. Even application to UNbroken skin can be toxic (and potentially fatal) due to absorption through the skin. Used in homeopathy for illnesses of intense onset
Not so long ago the leaves were collected in June and prepared to form an Extract of Aconite which was employed by the historical medical professionals of the day. It derived the name Wolfbane in ancient times as arrows tipped with the juice of the plant were used to kill wolves.
Monkshood, or Aconite is known by many common names including Wolfsbane, Leopard Bane, Tiger Bane, Dog's Bane, Friar's Cap, and Friar's Cowl, Garden Wolfbane, Helmet Flower, or Soldier's Cap.
In older times, it was used to poison meat to kill wolves; it was considered a key ingredient in a potion used to make witches fly; and Claudius I was assassinated by his physician, who slipped him some.
The leaves are easily mistaken for other edible wild plants, and there is a long record of accidental death by ingesting them.
Aconite acts on the nervous system by first stimulating and later paralysing the nerves of pain, touch and temperature. Taken internally aconite acts on the circulation, the respiration and the nervous systems. It causes severe nausia, slows the pulse, caused the heart to beat erratically, and causes a dramatic fall in blood pressure. Death is usually caused by paralysis of the respitory system.
It comes in the form of a white powder which is believed to have been sprinkled over Woolmer's sleeping tablets or into his diabetes medicine
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After weeks of investigations, the sensational Bob Woolmer murder case has shown signs of a breakthrough with ‘The Independent’, Digital enhancement of security camera footage from the 12th floor of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, where Woolmer was staying, has identified at least one suspect in the killing. The suspect is a male but the police have declined to comment if he is a member of the Pakistan team or the management.
Suspect killer is caught on camera
"The time of the footage and its location mean that this individual must be considered a suspect. Further work is being done on statements given by individuals to look at any inconsistencies. It is good progress," a source close to the investigation told the newspaper.
Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room on March 18, a day after Pakistan's loss to Ireland, but the local police have struggled to develop lasting leads in the murder case. Scotland Yard and Pakistan detectives and a DNA expert from Interpol have joined the investigation. The police believe Woolmer was strangled but poisoning has also been a popular theory and there have been regular reports of links to match-fixing.
Poisoned by Harry Potter aconite
Bob Woolmer, the father-of-two, whose embalmed body remains in Kingston awaiting release, was found early on 18 March, lying naked in the bathroom of his hotel room with traces of vomit on the floor. "The toxicology tests show that he had significant traces of aconite. We are now entirely convinced he was poisoned.
Aconite - an ancient poison, also known as Wolfsbane - is said to be perfect for concealing murder and has been used in several high-profile assassinations in Pakistan. Wolfsbane is mentioned in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', when the schoolboy wizard is quizzed on it by Professor Snape.
England player was drugged with an ancient poison
A suspect in the murder of the Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer has been identified from security camera footage in his hotel, amid growing evidence that the former England player was drugged with an ancient poison. The death of Mr Woolmer, who had already decided to resign his role, came amid claims that the former Kent and England player had fallen foul of a match-fixing syndicate he was about to expose.
Woolmer’s killing breakthrough the phone from Pakistan
The breakthrough comes after a man, thought to be from Pakistan, phoned police on Monday claiming that aconite killed the former Kent and England star.
The man did not give his name or give a reason for the murder.
"The man who called Kingston police station had a Pakistani accent and was very specific about aconite and how it was administered.
Woolmer killed to use aconite
Toxicologists say aconite, which is referred to in the Harry Potter books as wolfsbane, is the "perfect" drug to mask a murder.
It causes the victim's internal organs to seize and slows down their breathing until they finally stop.
Death is usually by asphyxiation within 30 minutes and this explains, police believe, how 16-stone Woolmer died without putting up a fight.
It also explains why Jamaican pathologist Dr Ere Sheshaiah found no marks around his neck to suggest he had been strangled.
"The symptoms Bob suffered before he died are identical to aconite poisoning, which is why it is a major line of inquiry now. It would also explain how such a physically imposing man, at 6ft 1in tall, died without putting up a fight.
Toxicologist Prof John Henry, of St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, said: "Woolmer would have felt nauseous after the drug began to work and would have gone to the bathroom to be sick. He wouldn't have realised straight away how serious his condition was, so it was doubtful he'd have phoned the hotel's reception.
"By the time he realised how ill he was it would be too late."He would have collapsed and been unable to move. The drug causes a loss of power in the limbs."
"It is the perfect drug to make a murder appear to be a suicide because it leaves no mark on the body. It is difficult to detect in a post-mortem.
The examiner would have to know what they were looking for.
"It would still be in a person's system after their death but it would not show up in a post-mortem unless it was specifically looked for."
Uses of aconite in Pakistan
The fact that aconite has also previously been used in Pakistan may also be highly relevant," The Sun quoted a senior police source as saying.
A well known politician Omar Asghar Khan, 48, found hanging from a ceiling fan.
Other victims are thought to include Pakistan's ex-PM Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, found dead in a Lebanese hotel in 1963, and the country's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah's sister Fatima. Canadian actor Andre Noble, 25, died in 2004 after accidentally eating part of the plant.
Benazir Bhuto’s both brothers are in exile, Shah Nawaz and Mir Murtaza, tried and convicted of high crimes in absentia. When Shah Nawaz was killed by poison in France in 1986, she suspected it was done by Zia ul-haq’s agents.
Match fixing behind the death of bob Woolmer
The revelation fuels the suspicion Woolmer was killed as he was about to expose match-fixing.
Senator Anwar Beg of Pakistan's Senate Standing Committee on Sports told the Sunday Mirror: "Some members of the Pakistan cricket team are involved in match fixing."
KGB legacy of poison politics
"This case of poisoning Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is not an isolated one at all," says Andrei Piontkovsky, head of the Center for Strategic Studies in Moscow. "This practice was routine for the KGB in Soviet times, and I don't think their successors have higher moral standards."
Oleg Kalugin, a cold war defector who now lives in America, told the London Sunday Times in 2002. "I recall in the old Soviet days the KGB planned to assassinate some people by putting poisonous gel on the door handle of a car."
Further back in history, Stalin's secret police staged a car crash in 1948, to kill Solomon Mikhoels, a Soviet Yiddish actor and theater director, and head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. Another famous case was that of the well-known pro-Bolshevik novelist Maxim Gorky, who died in 1936. The secret police chief at the time confessed to poisoning him at his trial two years later.
Even Boris Yeltsin, who later became president, once claimed in 1990 that he had been grabbed while walking and thrown off a bridge into the Moscow River. He showed up at a friend's place bruised, in tattered clothes, and soaking wet.
More recently two different journalists covering the Beslan hostage crisis in September say they were drugged - one on a plane, another during an FSB interrogation - to prevent their coverage of the story. Medical tests later confirmed one of the cases.
Arafat poisoned
As reported by ‘British Intelligence’ on Nov 28, 2004: The late PA chief Yasser Arafat was poisoned with a widely known toxic substance termed as “Acontine”, which is usually extracted from an Asian plant called “Aconite”, a report, issued recently by the British intelligence, disclosed.
The report said that the same substance, which could instantly dissolve in liquids, couldn’t be forensically detected in human body 12 hours after its penetration into it.The same poison causes fatal symptoms in the blood circulation, nervous, and digestive systems, according to the report.
It’s probable that Arafat was gradually poisoned, as 3 to 5 mgs of that poison is enough to cause his death, it highlighted, and noted that one of his top aides might have sneaked such a substance into his meals during the holy month of Ramadan, causing his slow death as was the case with the former Algerian president Hawari Boumaddine.Well-informed Palestinian sources, meanwhile, revealed that the US administration had refused to receive Arafat at “Mayo Clinic” hospital, as his illness coincided with the holding of the US presidential elections.The administration had already been acquainted with the nature of Arafat’s disease, therefore, it declined to receive him at that hospital so as not be embarrassed by his death, according to the sources.
King Henry and Pope Clement were poisoned
A toxicologist at the Hawaii State Department of Health reminds us that many kings of the past died young owing to poison. "Several Roman emperors and eligible candidates for emperor were done in by poison. Soaking a candle wick in arsenic or aconite (an alkaloid derived from a plant known as monkshood or wolfsbane), drying the wick, then making a candle out of it, was a popular Middle Ages technique. Lighting such a candle would produce deadly vapors. Aconite would cause irregular heartbeat, chest pain, and death within hours. This method was supposed to have killed Pope Clement VII in 1534 and Emperor Leopold I of Austria in 1705. Pope Clement was 56 years old and Emperor Leopold was 65 years old at the times of their deaths, so their deaths could have been from natural causes. However, for possible motives for murder, Clement was the Pope who alienated King Henry the 8th of England by declaring that Henry's marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon was still valid, which led to England's split from the Catholic Church, and Leopold's Austria was at war with Louis the XIV's France when Leopold died."
ACONITE
Family name: Ranunculaceae; Botanical name: Aconitum chasmanthum, heterophyllum; Name (Urdu): Monkshood, Atees, Meeta Zahar; Name in English: Aconite; Oher local names: Bezhumolo, Zhadwar
Under the restrictions of the 1968 Medicines Act in US, aconite in lotion form must not exceed 1.3 parts of aconite to 100 parts of lotion. To be effective, the therapeutic dose is so close to the toxic level that it should never be used internally and external application should never be done over broken skin. Even application to UNbroken skin can be toxic (and potentially fatal) due to absorption through the skin. Used in homeopathy for illnesses of intense onset
Not so long ago the leaves were collected in June and prepared to form an Extract of Aconite which was employed by the historical medical professionals of the day. It derived the name Wolfbane in ancient times as arrows tipped with the juice of the plant were used to kill wolves.
Monkshood, or Aconite is known by many common names including Wolfsbane, Leopard Bane, Tiger Bane, Dog's Bane, Friar's Cap, and Friar's Cowl, Garden Wolfbane, Helmet Flower, or Soldier's Cap.
In older times, it was used to poison meat to kill wolves; it was considered a key ingredient in a potion used to make witches fly; and Claudius I was assassinated by his physician, who slipped him some.
The leaves are easily mistaken for other edible wild plants, and there is a long record of accidental death by ingesting them.
Aconite acts on the nervous system by first stimulating and later paralysing the nerves of pain, touch and temperature. Taken internally aconite acts on the circulation, the respiration and the nervous systems. It causes severe nausia, slows the pulse, caused the heart to beat erratically, and causes a dramatic fall in blood pressure. Death is usually caused by paralysis of the respitory system.
It comes in the form of a white powder which is believed to have been sprinkled over Woolmer's sleeping tablets or into his diabetes medicine
Tags: News analysis Bob Woolmer Poison Politics Anti-Fascist Harry Potter Aconite Yasar Arafat Pope Henry KGB Toxicology Forensic test Post Mortem The Sun Match fixing Sunday Mirror Medicines Act Sleeping tablet Cricket Pakistan India Jamaica; tag this
By Premendra Agrawal
www.newsanalysisindia.com/
Related Article:
(1) Was Bob Woolmer poisoned? Police confirmed ‘death threats from Pak fans’
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/120032007.htm
(2) Bob’s murder: Tablighi Jammat: SIMI
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/327032007.htm
(3) Pak Cricket 3 Gofers & 4th wanted in Bob killing: Missing Pages buried in pitch
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/227032007.htm
(4) Lara on DNA: Cricketer or Mafia behind Woolmer, Hansie's deaths
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/125032007.htm
(5) Are Mass media and madness in cricket not killed Woolmer?
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/224032007.htm
(6) Worried Woolmer to Mir and Osman for his book onBookies
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/123032007.htm
(7) Was Don killed Bob for Bookie?
http://www.newsanalysisindia.com/122032007.htm
(8) Bob Woolmer was murdered: Why pressure of ICC on police?
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(9) Woolmer Bob made history in cricket by his life and death
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