STABBED, bleeding, and shouting desperately for help, Hereford’s Father’s Day murder victim Christian Bagley finally collapsed a friend’s front door.

By then, police had taken several 999 calls from Hunderton late on Sunday night about a man shouting in the street and banging on doors begging for help because he had been stabbed.

Detectives hope an account of Mr Bagley’s harrowing last minutes will prompt “the conscience of a community” to offer up vital information.

Detective Superintendent Adrian McGee, leading the hunt for the Father’s Day killer, said that, so far, there seemed no reason why Mr Bagley – heading home after visiting his infant daughter - was singled out to be fatally stabbed.

“The investigation is at a stage where any information, however slight it might seem, could be the breakthrough we need,” he said.

A full scale murder inquiry, Operation Concrete has 40 investigators back up by specialist search and house to house teams.

Mr Bagley is believed to have been stabbed from behind - without a struggle - on the pathway beneath Hunderton bridge.

Badly wounded and bleeding, Mr Bagley doubled back into Hunderton to shout for help and bang on doors before collapsing at the front door of a friend’s house in Rogers Avenue.

The 999 calls started coming in at around 10.50pm.

Some 20 minutes earlier Mr Bagley left an address in Cagebrook Avenue to cross the Wye and head home to Friar Street along Villa Street to Hunderton bridge.

Paramedics and police officers fought to save Mr Bagley on his friend’s doorstep, an effort that continued in the ambulance rushing him to Hereford County Hospital where he was pronounced dead soon after arrival.

Crime scene teams have spent today around the Hunderton bridge pathway and steps up to the Great Western Way.

Other officers have been checking on persons known to have been – or who could have been – using the pathway on Sunday night.

But, as yet, the investigation - lead by the West Mercia and Warwickshire major investigation team - has no suspect and no motive.

 * Information can be passed on to police on the 101 number quoting incident reference 717s of 21st June.

 Contact can also be made to the 0800 555 111 Crimestoppers line or via the  www.crimestoppers-uk.org website.