A 26-year-old man has pleaded responsible to murdering the spouse and two daughters of Sky and BBC racing commentator John Hunt in a crossbow assault.
Kyle Clifford, from Enfield, was accused of fatally capturing his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, 25, and her sister Hannah Hunt, 28, with a crossbow and stabbing their mom Carol Hunt, 61, to demise at their household house in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on July 9 2024.
Clifford, who served within the army from 2019 for round three years, turned the topic of a manhunt for plenty of hours earlier than he was discovered injured in Lavender Hill Cemetery in Enfield, north London, after capturing himself within the chest with the crossbow.
Following the deaths, Mr Hunt mentioned the devastation he and his surviving daughter Amy really feel “cannot be put into words”.
Showing by way of video hyperlink at Cambridge Crown Courtroom on Wednesday, Clifford pleaded responsible to 3 counts of homicide, certainly one of false imprisonment in opposition to Louise Hunt, and two counts of possession of offensive weapons – the crossbow and the knife.
He pleaded not responsible to a cost of raping Louise Hunt and can face trial for that cost on the similar court docket later this yr.
Following the assaults, the House Workplace mentioned House Secretary Yvette Cooper was urgently contemplating whether or not more durable crossbow legal guidelines had been wanted.
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