DETECTIVES have until tonight to continue questioning a 26-year-old South Korean language student arrested in connection with the murder of Jong-Ok Shin.

The suspect appeared before Bournemouth magistrates yesterday morning when police were granted a detention warrant for a further 36 hours.

Officers have refused to reveal which local language school 26-year-old Jong-Ok had been attending.

She lodged in the Charminster area where her brutal killing has sent shock waves through the local community, a favourite haunt for foreign students. Floral tributes have been left at the scene of her death.

Posters have been put up at key locations in the Charminster area in a bid to jog people's memories.

South Korean Jong-Ok, known as Oki to her friends, was found collapsed in Malmesbury Park Road in the early hours of Friday.

A post mortem examination showed she had suffered more than one stab wound. She died a short time later at Poole hospital.

Detectives are renewing their appeal for witnesses to the stabbing, between 2.30am and 3am, to phone 01202 222113 or the confidential Crimestoppers line 0800 555 111.

Police are still searching for the murder weapon, a knife of some kind, and carrying out house-to-house enquiries.