Kyle Clifford latest: Suspect in hospital after being detained over deadly crossbow attack on wife and two daughters of BBC and Sky broadcaster John Hunt (2024)

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Clifford was found in the Lavender Hill Cemetery and taken to a major trauma centre, where he remained in a “serious condition” with what are thought to be self-inflicted injuries. Police confirmed no shots were fired by officers.

Kyle Clifford has been apprehended and has been taken to hospital, police have said. Officers had launched a manhunt for the 26-year-old after the bodies of Carol Hunt and her two daughters, Louise and Hannah, were found at their home in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Clifford and his wife Paige have three sons together.

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Kyle Clifford, 26, was found injured just under 24 hours later in the Hilly Fields area of Enfield, north London. He was arrested on 11 July on suspicion of three counts of murder. Hertfordshire Police says he remains under arrest and "will continue to receive treatment for some time".

Clifford was found with injuries in Lavender Hill Cemetery in Enfield, north London, on Wednesday afternoon after police appealed to find him. Friends of the Hunt family attended a vigil at St James' Church in Bushey on Thursday and paid tribute to the three women.

Tributes have been paid to three women killed in an “utterly devastating” crossbow attack. Carol Hunt and her two daughters, beautician Hannah Hunt, 28, and dog groomer Louise Hunt, 25, were found injured at a home in Bushey, Hertfordshire on Tuesday and died shortly after at the scene.

He is understood to have seen police dog units and turned the weapon on himself. Clifford was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital after he was found injured but is yet to speak to police. The bolt is understood to have pierced his spinal cord, according to the Sun.

Paying tribute to the three victims, Mr Hunt and his third daughter Amy, who is believed to live in Birmingham and therefore not at the home at the time of the attack, previously said: "The devastation that we are experiencing cannot be put into words."

The BBC 5 live commentator and Sky Sports racing presenter said he had been left devastated by the death of Carol Hunt, 61, along with daughters Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25. The three family members were found fatally injured at their quiet suburban home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, last Tuesday.

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The man arrested over the crossbow murders of a BBC racing commentator's wife and daughters is paralysed, it has been reported. Medics have said Kyle Clifford, 25, may never walk again after it is believed he fired a crossbow bolt into his upper body before police arrived at the cemetery where he was hiding.

Burns, 48, is serving 23 years to life in prison for attacking Patricia Burns in her Lake Luzerne home. Clifford Burns pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Warren County Court after speaking with his daughters, who urged him to accept responsibility.

He was captured on Wednesday in woodland near Lavender Hill cemetery in Enfield by police looking for the man believed to have attacked and killed three women in their Hertfordshire home the previous day, about 17 miles away. The victims were Carol Hunt, 61, and her daughters Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25.

Police still to question crossbow murders suspect

Kyle Clifford, 26, was found injured just under 24 hours later in the Hilly Fields area of Enfield, north London. He was arrested on 11 July on suspicion of three counts of murder.