Detectives are renewing their appeal for information on the murder of a 20-year-old man outside Wandsworth Prison ten months ago.

Darcy Austin-Bruce, from Fulham, was shot in Heathfield Road while on his way to visit a prison inmate on Friday, May 1, at 2.30pm.

In a statement his family pleaded for anyone with information to come forward to help convict his killer.

It read: “Our son Darcy Austin-Bruce was brutally murdered in cold blood outside Wandsworth prison.

"Darcy was a loving kind generous and thoughtful young man who always made us laugh and smile.

"You never expect these terrible things to happen to you or someone in your family, but it does and it is devastating. And as a family we are just existing.

"Every day the pain is as fresh as the day he was first taken from us.

“No parent should see their child lying in a mortuary, or see and feel the bullets holes in his lifeless body, a life that was taken away by an evil monster and his accomplices.”

This week police revisited the Fulham Court Estate, where Mr Austin-Bruce was based, to hand out leaflets and talk with the community.

The day he was killed, a man wearing a crash helmet approached him and fired shots from a handgun before running a short distance and jumping on the back of a scooter.

The scooter, driven by a second man in a crash helmet, made off from Alma Terrace onto Trinity Road.

A post-mortem gave the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds to the torso.

Nine men were later arrested and bailed, but no-one has yet been charged.

The statement added: “Darcy was our world. We are a very loving family and Darcy's murder leaves us with such a void of unimaginable magnitude.

“Please help us to get justice for our child and for his sisters, who have now lost their only brother. Anyone out there, mothers, fathers, children, friends who have any information no matter how small, please, please feel our pain and help us. This has destroyed our family."

Detective Chief Inspector Gordon Allison, from the Trident Unit, is leading an investigation team.

To report information, call 020 8247 4554 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.