Inside haunting final minutes of BBC star’s family before crossbow murder – including victim’s tragic final phonecall

THE haunting last minutes earlier a crossbow slayer murdered a BBC star's household tin beryllium revealed.

Carol Hunt, 61, Louise, 25, and Hannah, 28, were recovered dormant astatine the household location successful Bushey, Hertfordshire, successful July.

Louise's ex Kyle Clifford was arrested pursuing a manhunt but was incapable to beryllium interviewed portion helium was treated for an wounded successful hospital.

The 26-year-old appeared astatine Cambridge Crown Court contiguous wherever helium dramatically changed his plea connected 3 counts of execution to guilty.

He besides admitted mendacious imprisonment aft tying Louise up and 2 counts of possession of violative weapons.

Clifford denied raping Louise connected July 9 - the aforesaid time the household were killed - and volition basal proceedings for that number connected March 3.

HORROR TIMELINE

The incident, connected Ashlyn Close, is understood to person begun astir 6.30pm.

Brave Hannah managed to telephone constabulary to archer them her mum and sister had been changeable and she feared "she was going to die".

The phonecall past chopped disconnected earlier she managed to re-establish interaction and an ambulance was called.

An inquest besides heard however she substance an unnamed idiosyncratic to uncover she had been "tied up".

She past begged them to telephone the constabulary arsenic the fishy was inactive successful the house.

Armed officers arrived astatine the location astir 7pm to find the beforehand doorway unfastened and Louise tied up with duct tape.

Tragic Hannah was lying successful the main doorway and been changeable with a crossbow but was inactive alive.

Mum Carol had been stabbed successful the knee, hands, backmost and torso with the ten-inch butcher's knife.

It is understood the BBC racing commentator John Hunt was informed of the calamity arsenic helium returned from enactment astatine Lingfield Park.

A manhunt was launched for Clifford, with equipped constabulary carrying retired a raid connected his location successful Enfield, North London.

He was recovered injured successful a cemetery 2 days aboriginal astatine 6pm aft shooting himself successful the thorax with a crossbow.

ARMY MISFIT

Clifford dropped retired of the Army aft 2 years, according to a erstwhile colleague.

They claimed the slayer never fitted in astatine the Queen’s Dragoons aft joining successful 2019.

It was besides claimed Clifford had failed signifier 1 grooming astatine ATC Pirbright successful Brookwood, Surrey.

His erstwhile workfellow said: “Kyle didn’t alteration passim service. People got truthful frustrated with him.

“Everyone had to prime up the slack. He wasn’t a bully soldier.”

After the Army, Clifford took a fig of low-paid jobs earlier uncovering enactment successful backstage security.

One of his jobs for six months successful 2023 was astatine Amthal, a occurrence and information installation institution successful St Albans, Herts.

One of 3 children, Clifford’s older member Bradley, 30, is serving a beingness condemnation for the execution of a young moped rider who smashed a vessel against his car during a enactment successful 2017.

He was fixed a minimum 23-year tariff aft ramming his 18-year-old unfortunate astatine 60mph with his Ford Mustang earlier beating him arsenic helium laic fatally injured.