Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford admits murdering BBC man’s wife and daughters

Triple crossbow slayer Kyle Clifford has pleaded blameworthy to murdering the woman and 2 daughters of BBC prima John Hunt successful a horrific attack.

The 26-year-old murdered Carol Hunt, 61, woman of BBC equine racing commentator John Hunt, and 2 of her daughters, Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25, astatine the household location successful Bushey, Hertfordshire, connected July 9.

Louise and Hannah had been changeable with a crossbow and Carol had been stabbed respective times with a 10-inch butcher’s knife. All 3 had been bound and gagged.

Hannah managed to telephone 999 astatine 1 stage, telling an relation an intruder had wounded her, stabbed her mum and tied up her sister earlier shooting her too.

Clifford has present pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of execution astatine Cambridge crown court.

David Burns, prosecuting astatine a erstwhile proceeding said: ‘She stated the intruder was successful the property. He had changeable her, her parent and her sister and she feared she was going to die. The phone telephone past chopped off.

‘She managed to re-establish transportation and called an ambulance. The telephone telephone chopped disconnected again. Police recovered Hannah Hunt lying successful the doorway. She had been changeable with a crossbow successful the chest.

‘They recovered Louise tied up and she had besides been changeable with a crossbow. They recovered their parent Carol who had been stabbed with a weapon and suffered aggregate injuries.

‘All 3 were treated astatine the country but each 3 passed away.’

Clifford was arrested the adjacent time astatine a cemetery adjacent to his location successful Enfield, London.

Commentator John, who works for BBC Radio 5 Live and Sky TV, returned to enactment for the BBC successful Brighton connected September 9.

In a moving statement, helium described the attacks arsenic a ‘horrid evil that’s swept done our lives, wreaking devastation connected an unimaginable scale’.

But helium besides praised surviving girl Amy’s effect arsenic ‘magnificently inspirational’.

The 2 of them said: ‘The devastation that we are experiencing cannot beryllium enactment into words.

‘We would similar to convey radical for their benignant messages and for the enactment we person received successful caller days. These person provided large comfortableness to america for which we are precise grateful.

‘As you tin imagine, this is an highly hard clip for us, and we request clip and abstraction to travel to presumption with what has happened and commencement the grieving process.’

A GoFundMe leafage acceptable up to enactment them raised much than £120,000.

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