THE FBI could help investigate the death of former Kent and England cricketer Bob Woolmer after British police concluded he was not murdered.

A Scotland Yard team, who helped with inquiry, said Mr Woolmer, who was overweight, may have had a heart attack.

But at the weekend, Jamaican police insisted they wanted a third opinion and had asked America’s FBI for assistance.

A police spokesman said: "We’re still treating his death as murder."

Pakistan coach Mr Woolmer, 58, who formerly lived in Tunbridge Wells and once owned a shop in Tonbridge High Street, was found dead in his hotel bathroom in Jamaica on March 18, the day after his team had crashed out of the World Cup by losing to Ireland.

Tests found a broken bone in his neck and weedkiller in his blood.

But the Scotland Yard review said a seizure may have made him fall awkwardly and the weedkiller could have been inhaled from cricket pitches.

The latest twist comes after work by a UK Home Office pathologist who flew to Jamaica to investigate Mr Woolmer’s death.

Days later Mark Shields, Jamaica’s deputy police commissioner, announced at a news conference that Mr Woolmer had been murdered.

Every member of the Pakistan team was interviewed and fingerprinted before returning home from the Caribbean, although police stressed at the time that they were not treated as suspects

In May, several other reports suggested Mr Woolmer was not murdered, often citing sources close to the investigation.