POLICE hunting the ''carjack'' killers who murdered a man after

abducting him warned last night that they could strike again.

The body of 43-year-old Grant Price was found on an isolated sea spit

on Friday night, six days after he was seized as he shopped with his

nine-year-old son at Gosport, Hampshire.

It was believed he had been dead for at least 28 hours.

Mr Price was an accountant who worked for Southampton City Council.

The head of Hampshire CID, Detective Chief Superintendent Roger

Hoddinott, asked for information from the public and added a warning.

Asked if he believed the gang could strike again, Mr Hoddinott

replied: ''Yes''.

Mr Price's body had multiple stab wounds and police said it was

possible he had been killed elsewhere and his body taken to the isolated

spit by boat.

His son, David, was left stranded in a shopping centre when his father

was abducted.

Police are anxious to interview people who were in the vicinity of the

car park at South Street, Gosport, where Mr Price was abducted on

Saturday January 22; at banks in Alton, Winchester, and Portsmouth where

his cashcard was used; and at Hurst Castle Spit, near Lymington, where

his body was found.

They also want to speak to people who used a car park at Osborne Road,

Fareham, where, two hours before Mr Price was abducted, student John

Wink was stabbed in the hand and leg when two men attempted to take his

car.

A 999 call for an ambulance was made by a Mr Harvey who, said police,

had not been traced.

Police are linking the Fareham incident with the abduction at Gosport

nearby of Mr Price, who lived at Lee-on-Solent.

One of the men involved in the attack on 20-year-old Mr Wink, who has

now been released from hospital, was 19-20 and wearing a light-coloured

woollen hat with the rim turned back and a lumberjack-style shirt.

The other man was aged 17-20, had brown spikey hair, and who may have

been wearing a red-checked shirt.

On the afternoon of Mr Price's abduction, his bank card was used by a

young man at the National Westminster Bank and the Trustee Savings Bank

at Alton. Two successful attempts to draw money were made and three

unsuccessful attempts.

Later that afternoon the card was also used in Winchester and in

Portsmouth on the Sunday and Monday.