THIS is the first picture of St Mary's murder victim Devon Anthony Adamson.

Detectives are continuing their investigations into the murder of the young man stabbed through the heart in Southampton.

Mr Adamson, 23, died from his injury last Tuesday after stumbling into the Royal South Hants Hospital in the St Mary's area of the city.

Police believe the fatal wound was inflicted during a dispute involving a group of black men in nearby Exmoor Road.

Raids have been carried out at addresses in Northumberland Road, and Oxford Avenue, Newtown, and Addison Road, Sarisbury Green.