A janitorial staff member had the court's attention when she testified yesterday at the coroner's inquest into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston.

Patricia Baker-Sinclair, a senior superintendent working with Manpower Maintenance Services, said that on March 12, she witnessed Mr. Woolmer counting "coils of U.S. dollars" in the presence of another man inside a closed area of a dressing room at Sabina Park.

"Woolmer was checking it (the money) and putting it away in a big bag - similar to bags carried by the cricketers," Ms. Sinclair said.

Other person was an Indian

She further testified that she did not know the man who was inside the room alone with Woolmer but that "the other person was an Indian".

She said, too, that the door to the dressing room of the North Stand was closed and she was only allowed in after knocking and being asked to identify herself.

Ms. Sinclair had the courtroom laughing when she sought to explain the quantity of money that she had seen Woolmer counting.

"Money was in a thick coil," she said. "Saw a lot of coils of money on the table 'elastic-up'."

When asked how she knew it was U.S. currency, Ms. Sinclair replied: "I looked on it."

Ms. Sinclair said that, while she replaced the dressing room toiletries, the men exchanged words, but she did not understand what was being said as they spoke in a language unknown to her.

Ms. Sinclair will provide further testimony when the inquest continues today.