00:00Police began the hunt for the 26-year-old after the bodies of the wife and two daughters of the BBC sports commentator were found in Hertfordshire
00:08The emergency services were called to a house in Ashland close bushy shortly before 7 o'clock yesterday evening
00:14The three women were found with serious injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene
00:19Police had told the public not to approach the suspect Kyle Clifford as he could be carrying a crossbow
00:25Within the last hour the police confirmed that he has been detained at a cemetery in Enfield in North London
00:31Our reporter Harry Fawcett is in bushy now Harry
00:38Well Christian whenever a serious crime is visited on a community there will be shock there will be sorrow
00:44outrage perhaps fear all of that more intense here because of the sheer nature of the crime that took place and
00:51Only compounded during the day as more details have been coming out that three women from the same family were killed in this way
00:58Allegedly with the use of a crossbow that they were the daughters and wife of the BBC sports commentator
01:06John Hunt that
01:08the suspect
01:10Escaped and that there was this enormous manhunt for him
01:13And as you've been saying just in the last hour or so
01:16That manhunt has come to an end in Enfield where the man Kyle Clifford 26 a former soldier
01:23Was said to have been from it was at a cemetery there where there's a massive police operation
01:29Police saying that he was detained that he's being treated for injuries in detention and that there were no shots fired
01:37During his detention police saying this is an incredibly complex
01:41Operation and that they're grateful for the overwhelming number of calls that they received during the course of that manhunt back here
01:49Though the attention very much has been on the three women who were killed
01:53we spoke to one woman who had been
01:56Visited by one of the daughters in her capacities as a beautician, especially during the kovat lockdown real sorrow
02:02They're people talking to each other about the prospect of coming home to your family home to find what had happened
02:09And it happened just a few steps away on this quiet suburban close
02:15Inside one of these near identical houses on this quiet Hertfordshire Street a crime almost
02:21unimaginable in its scale and nature
02:23Three women a mother and her two adult daughters killed inside their home in what police are calling a targeted attack
02:31Police were called to a property in Ashland close just before 7 p.m. Last night
02:36Officers attended alongside colleagues from the East of England Ambulance Service and on arrival found three women with serious injuries
02:44Sadly despite their best efforts the women who are believed to be related died a short time later at the scene
02:51The women killed were 25 year old Louise Hunt her 28 year old sister Hannah and their mother Carol who was 61
02:58It was Carol's husband John Hunt the BBC racing commentator
03:01Who reportedly called police after discovering his fatally injured wife and daughters when he got home from work a
03:11Familiar voice for decades other racing broadcasters and people from within the sport have offered support and condolences
03:21The family's neighbors left stunned that something so terrible could have happened just yards away
03:26It's
03:29Horrific I have to go to work. I have to you know, we have to do our day-to-day job
03:34But it's it does affect you and it's at the back of your mind
03:38You know, it's right on your doorstep
03:40She told to go inside there because there might be a man on the loose there with the crossbow. So we all
03:45went upstairs and
03:47Kept on popping ahead like most of us most of the neighbors there through that through the windows kind of thing there
03:51So a bit of window watching
03:52I mean
03:53What was that like on a normal evening being told as a man with a crossbow nearby?
03:57It's unnerving
03:59Police put out an alert for this man 26 year old Kyle Clifford possibly armed with a crossbow and other weapons
04:05Warning the public not to approach him and call 999
04:09The Ministry of Defense has confirmed. He was a serving member of the army saying he left after a short period of service in
04:162022 police say he's from Enfield in North London where an address was raided earlier today
04:23Locals tell us that the man made his escape down this alleyway south from the murder scene to this street where there was a car
04:30Waiting for him
04:31They say that he either drove himself away or was driven away and that the scene was captured by a video doorbell
04:38We've had it confirmed by one neighbor that they have passed those recordings on to the police
04:43The Sun newspaper today obtained exclusive footage that appears to show the suspect leaving the crime scene carrying something concealed under material
04:52A short walk away at his home local County Councillor Lawrence Brass says he heard the helicopters and started getting messages about a major incident
05:00His wife and daughter he says were clients of Hannah Hunt who worked as a beautician
05:04They were expecting the the daughter and she hadn't had up for work and they were wondering why she was late
05:10And of course, it's transpired why and that was really hit hard hit hard
05:16This evening there was major police activity at a cemetery in the Enfield area
05:21Armed police and an emergency helicopter involved the scale of it all
05:25Testament to the fact that finding the alleged triple killer had become a national police priority
05:32and the statement from the Hertfordshire Police this evening reads in part that this investigation is moving at pace and
05:38Formal identification of the victims is yet to take place
05:41I have to say there was just a few minutes ago a funeral van that went in to the cul-de-sac behind us here
05:48police also saying that the
05:51Continues to be an incredibly difficult time for the victims family asking that their privacy is maintained
05:57Certainly that is being reflected here
06:00Along with tributes being laid in terms of flowers here at the scene and two local churches also being opened for vigils tonight
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