Peter Roebuck Suicide After Police Inquiry on Sex Assault

ReturnRosetta Stone Software to video Video feedback Thank you. . Roebuck 'a huge cricket intellect' Veteran sports commentator and one-time ABC colleague, Tim Lane pays tribute to Peter Roebuck. Video feedback Video settings Perception and poetry: a selection of Roebuck writingsTim Lane: a spirited voice of summer falls silentPeter Hanlon: a plucky bat, and hard to shift PETER Roebuck, held by Rosetta Stone Language many to be the finest cricket writer of his generation, fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday night after being questioned by police about an alleged sexual assault. Roebuck, who has written on cricket for The Age since 1984, had been covering the tour for the paper. He was also commentating for ABC radio. Advertisement: Story continues below Click for more photos Peter Roebuck - a stroll through the years A thoughtful Peter Roebuck. Roebuck was a familiar face at Test cricket venues around the globe. Photo: Daily Mail A detective and a uniformed officer from the sexual crimes unit of the Cape Town police began speaking with Roebuck, 55, in his room in the Southern Sun Hotel, Newlands, about 9pm on Saturday. Roebuck, who was agitated, asked a fellow cricket journalist for help. ''Can you come down to my room quickly? I've got a problem,'' he said. Roebuck asked for help to find a lawyer and for contact to be made with the students he helped house in Pietermaritzburg. A few minutes later Roebuck fell to his death from a balcony. It is believed only the uniformed officer was in the room. Paramedics rushed to the scene, where Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) Roebuck was declared dead. Police from the local Claremont station then established a crime scene and took items from Roebuck's room, including his laptop.