PTI

Karachi, May 11: In a sensational turn to Bob Woolmer's murder case, it was disclosed on Thursday that two champagne bottles were passed on to him by the team's bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed, which may unravel the mystery of the poison-laced drink the Pakistani coach is believed to have had on the night he died.

The disclosure was made by the Pakistan team's media manager Pervez Mir who said that the team manager Talat Ali was a witness to the bottles being passed on to Woolmer in the team hotel in Jamaica about 7 weeks ago during the cricket World Cup.

The British media in recent days has reported that the Scotland Yard, with which the Jamaican Police has been in touch, suspects that a "killer weed" had been mixed with champagne taken by Woolmer in his hotel room before he was found dead on March 18.

Mushtaq, currently in England, said after Mir's statement that some persons of Pakistani origin based in England had left the two bottles in his hotel room and since he does not drink, Woolmer had picked them up four days before he was found dead.

Former leg spinner, Ahmed is an activist of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious outfit, and former skipper Inzamam-ul Haq had come under criticism for taking Ahmed as a bowling coach.