Police investigating the murder of Trowbridge builder Adrian Cooksey were out on the streets of Melksham last night to retrace his final steps.

About 22 officers, uniformed and plain clothed, were in the town centre last night and into the early hours of this morning, exactly a week after Mr Cooksey suffered fatal injuries in Spa Road, close to Wansbroughs Solicitors.

A police control unit was set up in the Market Place, outside the town hall, and police stopped drivers and spoke to revellers in Spa Road and the town centre to see if they had any information about the father-of-three's murder.

A police officer dressed in similar clothes to those worn by Mr Cooksey on the night he was attacked, retraced the 50-year-old's steps in a bid to jog people's memories.

Mr Cooksey had been out in town centre pubs during the evening of Saturday, March 6, including the Parsons Nose.

He had gone back to a friend's house and was walking back from Coronation Road to the town centre to get a taxi when he was fatally attacked. He was found by an off-duty police officer at about 3am.

Mr Cooksey was taken to the Royal United Hospital in Bath but his life support machine was switched off in the early hours of Monday morning.

Posters appealing for information on his murder have been put up across Melksham, including McDonald's in Beanacre Road and The Tavern pub, in Market Place, where the majority of revellers were congregated last night.

More than 50 police officers are working on the case and a 21-year-old man remains on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of murder last Monday morning.