"You are a monster" - Court hears victim statements at the sentencing of Bushey triple murderer

The family of three women, murdered in Bushey, have appeared in court to read their victim impact statements this morning.

Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt were brutally murdered by 26-year-old Kyle Clifford, at their family home in Bushey on July 9th, 2024.

The murders were pre-meditated, after 25-year-old Louise broke off their relationship.

Clifford, from Enfield, North London, is being sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court today. He failed to appear, refusing to attend the sentencing either in person, or virtually.

"The screams of hell, Kyle. I can hear them faintly now. They're going to roll the red carpet out for you."

Racing commentator John Hunt began his victim impact statement declaring his desire to read it to Clifford "eye to eye", and went on to describe his misunderstanding of what the statement would involve.

""When I was first invited to provide a victim impact statement, I initially misunderstood its purpose, do I really need to detail the impact of having three quarters of my family murdered?

"But then I realised that his was my final opportunity to say what I wanted to say, specifically to you, Kyle, words that will also be directed to your family, who will carry guilt forwards with them for the rest of their lives.

"They knew about the weapons, they knew."

The husband of 61-year-old Carol Hunt, and father of Louise, and 28-year-old Hannah, went on to say he is "so proud of all my girls", following their deaths at the family home in Ashlyn Close.

John continued: "I also want to confirm to the world the truth, especially how Louise conducted herself within a textbook mature break-up on her part, understanding the conflict of saying goodbye to someone she once loved, but not allowing those memories to cloud her certain knowledge that you, Kyle, simply failed to be the person she needed. You failed.

"I am so proud of all my girls.

"Unlike you, Kyle, at every step of their lives, they made the correct choices to improve themselves as people.

"Louise, she enjoyed more success and fulfilment in one morning than you achieved in your entire miserable life."

John Hunt described Clifford as a "psychopath" as he continued his victim impact statement.

Addressing the murder of his wife, Carol, Mr Hunt said: "Carol still displayed compassion right up until the moment she answered the door to you on July 9.

"Do you remember her kindness, Kyle? How she urged you to get some relationship help and guidance for fear that you would never be able to sustain a lasting relationship?

"You calmly accepted that advice on the doorstep and then literally seconds later, savagely stabbed her eight times and ended her life.

"When I challenged myself about how you were able to deceive us all, I simply say that you are a psychopath who, for the duration of your time together with Louise, was able to disguise yourself as an ordinary human being."

John Hunt, fighting back tears as he read his victim impact statement from the witness box, said his daughter Louise Hunt left Kyle Clifford after saying "enough is enough".

"I hope women round the world will take Louise's bravery as a shining beacon for their lives,"

"If you feel enough is enough, then it is."

Family members wiped tears from their eyes as Mr Hunt read his statement, with Clifford, who refused to attend the hearing, absent.

Mr Hunt went on to say he believes his daughter Hannah prevented him from being the fourth victim on July 9th, by raising the alarm after she was injured by Clifford.

He said: "Hannah handed me a second chance, one that she worked so hard to achieve for me."

Ending his statement, Mr Hunt said: "Whatever sentence you're about to receive, whatever misery lies ahead for you in the next 60 years, remain that after your days on earth are done, on your dying day there will be no release for you Kyle," Mr Hunt said, reading his victim impact statement at Cambridge Crown Court.

"The screams of hell, Kyle. I can hear them faintly now.

"They're going to roll the red carpet out for you."

"Your soul will suffer for eternity."

Hannah Hunt's partner, Alex Klein, said his girlfriend could "only be described as an angel".

Reading his victim impact statement to the court he said: "Kyle, the world knows how pathetic you are, and that my Hannah stopped you in your tracks.

"I have no sympathy for what may happen to you and your family in the future.

"You are nothing to me, and I have nothing but disgust for you.

"You are a weak and insecure little boy who compulsively lied... always looking for the easy way out rather than facing the truth.

"You are a coward. You simply were not good enough for an angel like Louise.

"Your soul will suffer for eternity."

"The Hunt family are human and you are not."

John and Carol Hunt's eldest, and only surviving daughter, Amy Hunt, also read out her victim impact statement to court.

Ms Hunt called Clifford a "monster" and said that what he did "to my baby sister is nothing short of demonic".

She broke down and wept part way through her victim impact statement at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday.

She said that Clifford's "monstrous, selfish actions" had devastated the loved ones of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt and that Clifford "decided your own fragile ego and pride were more important".

"You planned to take the lives of three women who have never done anything to hurt you and for what - you got dumped," she said.

She went on to describe how Clifford turned their home into "the most unsafe place in the world for those few hours" and called him a monster.

Amy Hunt continued: "That day, Kyle, you ripped a mother away from her daughters, a wife away from her husband, sisters away from one another, daughters away from their father, much adored friends away from their friends... alongside countless other losses formed from your entirely self-absorbed actions.

"For dad and I, you have callously and coldly taken not one, not two but the three most important people in our lives outside of each other.

"You have destroyed generations that always did, and were set to, enjoy wonderful, peaceful lives together.

"My mother will never see any of her daughters get married.

"Mum and dad will not be able to grow old and enjoy retirement together, my sisters will never be the mothers they dreamed of being or build their own homes, and I will never be an auntie to their children, nor dad a granddad to their children."

Amy Hunt's statement went on: "It is difficult to think of a more devastating reality than the one you have created, Kyle - though I imagine that these facts mean nothing to you.

"You violently took my mother and sisters from me, and you violently killed almost all of my mum and dad's children.

"As a son to a mother, a brother to a sister... I will never understand how you felt and feel nothing about the hideous act - but I suppose that is what separates you from us.

"Kyle, plainly the Hunt family are human and you are not."

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