Kingston, May 3:

Police are trying to identify dozens of people captured by security cameras at the hotel where Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered, the lead investigator said on Wednesday.

About 80 unidentified people were filmed on Woolmer’s floor during the days he and his team stayed at Kingston’s Pegasus Hotel, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields said. Woolmer was found strangled in his room on March 18, a day Pakistan was upset by Ireland in the World Cup.

“The (closed-circuit TV) work has been completed and we’re now looking at individuals on those tapes whom we’ve yet to identify,” said Shields. He did not say how many people police have identified so far.

Police were interviewing witnesses but did not intend to release the images, he said. Shields said he was confident Woolmer’s killing will be solved even though police have yet to announce any breakthroughs more than six weeks into the probe.

The BBC reported this week that a toxicology test detected a drug in Woolmer’s system that would have incapacitated him. But Shields said his team has not confirmed the presence of drugs in Woolmer’s system.