EXPLAINER
Clifford, who denies murdering the wife and daughters of a BBC presenter, has also been charged with raping one of them.
Kyle Clifford, a former British Army soldier who is accused of murdering a woman and her two daughters in the United Kingdom, has now also been charged with raping one of the women.
On July 10, Clifford was accused of fatally stabbing 61-year-old Carol Hunt, the wife of BBC commentator John Hunt, with a butcher’s knife, and also killing their daughters Louise and Hannah, aged 25 and 28 respectively, with a crossbow.
He went on the run and was eventually apprehended close to his home in Enfield, North London, after a two-day manhunt.
John Hunt is BBC Radio’s main horse-racing commentator, his voice known to millions through his coverage of the world-famous Grand National and the Derby.
On Thursday this week, Clifford appeared via videolink for a hearing at Cambridge Crown Court. He entered a not guilty plea to the charges already lodged against him.
“During the hearing, Clifford was further charged with the rape of Louise Hunt on 9 July and no plea was entered in relation to that matter,” the Hertfordshire police said in a statement.
Here is what we know about the case:
Who is Kyle Clifford?
Born in April 1998 in Enfield, north London, Clifford, 26, is the third of four siblings, according to UK media reports.
His elder brother, Bradley Clifford, was jailed for life in 2018 for murdering 18-year-old Soban Khan and 19-year old Jahshua Francis by ploughing into their moped with his car in Enfield after they hit his vehicle with a bottle.
Kyle Clifford served in the British Army’s Queen’s Dragoon Guards for two years before he dropped out in 2022.
An unnamed army source told the UK