Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford ‘will suffer for eternity’ as ‘pathetic dreg of society’ rots in prison cell forever
The devastated “future husband” of Kyle Clifford’s victim Hannah Hunt has called him a “pathetic dreg of society” and said the triple murderer will “suffer for eternity”.
In July last year, ex-soldier Clifford knocked on the door of the Hunt family home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and was welcomed in by Carol Hunt, 61. Within moments the “arrogant ex-soldier” turned on the mother and plunged a knife into her repeatedly. His main target was his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, 25, who he then restrained and raped mere feet away from her dying mum before firing a crossbow bolt into her chest.
He had started planning the attack days after Louise gracefully ended their 18-month relationship, and also wanted vengeance on her family as he thought they’d been telling her to end it. Louise’s sister Hannah, 28, was the next to die when she returned home while Clifford was still in the home after carrying out the “violent, sexual act of spite”.
Hannah entered the house to find half of her family destroyed, but managed to message her partner Alex Klein to tell him “he’s tying us up” before Clifford fired a fatal bolt into her body. In his victim impact statement yesterday, her father John Hunt praised his daughter’s bravery as the reason for him still being alive, adding that had she not sent that message, he would’ve also been killed when he got home.
Alex also had the opportunity to address Clifford and the court in his own impact statement as the “weak and insecure little boy” was handed a whole-life term yesterday. He said: “It is so heartbreaking that such a beautiful soul was taken by such a worthless and useless dreg of society.
Carol, Hannah and Louise are three angels that Kyle Clifford should never have had the pleasure of meeting. My Hannah deserved everything in the world. She deserved to have had the happiest life with me. I wish she had survived, every day, whatever life changing injures she may have sustained I would still have had her here by my side.”
Alex said he is glad that the world knows just “how pathetic you are” and proud that “my Hannah” stopped him from carrying out more carnage.
After the slaughter, police found Clifford in a graveyard with self-inflicted injuries after he tried to take his own life. Alex believes this was Clifford trying to escape reponsibility for his awful crimes. He said: “You are a weak and insecure little boy who compulsively lied and tried to commit suicide, always looking for the easy way out rather than facing the truth. You are a coward,” he said.
“You simply were not good enough for an angel like Louise. Your soul will suffer for eternity. There is no repentance for your cowardly actions that day. You are everything you said you weren’t, and nothing you said you are. You are a true selfish loser.”
In the statement, Alex spoke about the beauty of his “one in a million” relationship with Hannah, saying that she was so “exquisitely attractive” that he “found it difficult to stop thinking about her from the first moment”. Countless loved ones have come out to describe the three women as selfless, and “the type of women who would do anything they could to help someone else”.
“Hannah completed my life. I have worked so hard to build a future together and achieve our goals and all I wanted was to share that with her. She was my world, the perfect woman. She supported me and understood me in every way. She was always present through any downs that I had and flew with me during my highs. Hannah was undoubtedly my wife to be. She was my future,” he said.
Alex explained how the events of that day have traumatised him to the point he is plagued by “traumatic dreams” and the “heartache” of being without the “love I once had every day”.
“I must live every day without my Hannah which is so unfair. I would give anything to have her back. We used to go for coffee and lunch every Sunday. I wish I could have just one more of those moments with her,” he said.
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