Crossbow killer planned an attack after ‘reject’

A 26-year-old man planned a deadly attack after being dismissed and rebelled on his former-partner’s family, an prosecutor prosecuted a case.

Alison Morgan Casey said Kyle Clifford murdered former partner Lewis Hunt, his sister Hannah Hunt, and his mother Carol Hunt on 9 July 2024 in the family house of Hertfordshire.

He also told the Cambridge Crown Court that Clifford raped and raped Lewis.

Enfield, Clifford of North London accepted murder, false imprisonment and occupation of aggressive weapons, but refused to rape.

Miss Morgan on Tuesday expanded the attacks while opening the prosecution in Clifford’s rape trial.

61 -year -old Carol was killed and Hannah, 28, and Lewis, 25, suffered a deadly crossbow bolt injuries at their home in Ashlin Close.

The three women were the wife and daughters of BBC racing commentator John Hunt.

Clifford admitted three murder allegations in Cambridge in January.

Miss Morgan said that Clifford admitted that she had killed the three women and was “illegally in the possession of a knife and a crossbow”.

He said that he also admitted that he had wrongly imprisoned Lewis Hunt and stopped him from his will.

Miss Morgan told the gamblers, “The only issue for you to determine is the rape.”

“During this prolonged incident, the prosecution alleged that the defendant raped Lewis Hunt.

“It was a violent, sexual act, before he would kill him.”

He said: “You have to determine that charge.

“He denies that he raped Lewis Hunt on 9 July last year.”

Miss Morgan said that the Hunt family lived in Ashin Close, Bushi at the time of “these events”.

He said: “Lewis Hunt carried out a business of grooming his dog with a pod in the garden behind the address. Hannah Hunt locally worked as a beauty doctor. Carol Hunt was at home during the day.”

Miss Morgan said that Mr. Hunt, who is a racing commentator and works for the BBC, had a “living daughter”, Amy Hunt.

Miss Morgan said: “He was working on 9 July 2024 and was not present at the address during that day, a fact that was checked by the defendant during these incidents, searching online what racing events were happening that day.”

Miss Morgan said that Clifford and Lewis met on a dating website and lived in a relationship for about 18 months.

Miss Morgan told the gamblers, “Lewis Hunt has been described by her friends as a care, positive and happy person, who was hardworking and who developed her own business, ‘Dulhe and Glow’,” Miss Morgan told the gamblers.

“However, friends and family were concerned about the impact of his relationship with the defendant.”

Lewis told a friend that Clifford had “bad nature” and “number of events”, where he “behaved aggressively”, the test heard by the test.

A family member found Clifford “odd”. Miss Morgan said that she was concerned about Lewis’s relationship with the defendant and the way she treated her, Miss Morgan said.

Miss Morgan said: “Hannah Hunt had said that the family found the defendant abusive, rude and arrogant.

“He hoped the relationship would end.”

The prosecutor said that Lewis instigated the end of the relationship supported by friends and family.

He said that the court formed a relationship with Clifford’s “other women” and hid them from Lewis.

Clifford tried to “re -awakened” the relationship, but was reprimanded by Lewis and “rejection” “angry”.

Miss Morgan said she was generally angry at Lewis and her family, as she had taken “correctly” that friends and family members advised Lewis to end the relationship.

Miss Morgan said that Clifford spoke about the “plan of an attack” on the Hunt family.

Miss Morgan stated that in late June 2024, Lewis “made Clifford clear” that she did not consider her “behavior” as “acceptable”.

Lewis said that the relationship was “sucking my life out” and made it clear that she was “finishing” with Clifford.

On 26 June 2024, he wrote: “… I am sorry that Kyle but I think I can’t continue whatever I have, I think it is broken and I can’t ignore how I feel or have been designed to feel in our relationship during the year.

“I don’t know that in the future if both of us work on ourselves, it can be something amazing, but I just think that I do it to take some place and go far for my own purity and health.

“Thanks for the incredible time we have this year, I hope you know how much I love you and will still do it for a long time. I never want anything to happen between us. Always take care of you.”

Miss Morgan stated that Clifford appeared to accept the “this situation”.

But he said, in the following days, it became clear that he had not accepted the break-up.

He said that he started planning “that would be on 9 July 2024”.

He said that Clifford also made a telephone note, which appeared as a “suicide paper”, addressed to relatives.

But he said that he did not try no suicide, or self-loss before extending his attack.

The Clifford was not in the trial and the judge told the gamblers that he had opted not to appear.

He served in the army since 2019 for the first three years.

After the murders, after shooting himself in the chest with Crossbow, he became the subject of a manhunt for several hours before being found injured in the Lavender Hill Cemetery in Enfield.

The trial judge, Mr. Justice Beathan, had told the first gamblers that it would be “fundamentally wrong” that Clifford should be guilty of “something else” because he had accepted the murder.

The test is going on.