FLOWERS have been laid outside a pub at the spot where a man was slashed across the throat.

The 43-year-old man was stabbed outside the Corner House pub, Hollow Way, in Cowley, Oxford, at 10.40pm last night and later died in hospital.

Police had sealed off the pub to launch an investigation.

Family and friends laid three bouquets of flowers outside the pub entrance at midday after the cordon was lifted.

Officers investigating the stabbing are also searching a house in Leiden Road, Wood Farm.

Det Supt Rob Mason, leading the investigation, said: "We have a team of detectives working on this case and are keen to speak to anyone who witnessed this incident or who has any information about it."

Police said the man received a single stab wound to his neck and died from the injury at the scene.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and a 21-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.