{"id":269841,"date":"2024-07-11T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=269841"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T02:13:07","slug":"uk-police-detain-crossbow-attack-suspect-after-three-women-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=269841","title":{"rendered":"UK police detain crossbow attack suspect after three women killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LONDON, July 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — United Kingdom police said that a 26-year-old man was in custody after the wife and two daughters of a radio racing commentator were killed with a crossbow in a suspected “targeted” attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Clifford, from Enfield in north London, was wanted in connection with the deaths of the three women in the town of Bushey, north of London, on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims were Carol Hunt, the 61-year-old wife of BBC radio and Sky Sports racing commentator John Hunt, and their two daughters, Louise, 25, and Hannah, 28, the broadcasters said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Wednesday, police said Clifford, who was found by officers in Enfield, “was known to the victims” and no additional suspects were being sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clifford was “receiving medical treatment having been found with injuries”, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No formal arrests have yet been made, police later said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local police previously said officers were called to a house in the leafy commuter town where the three women were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief superintendent Jon Simpson called it “a horrific incident involving what is currently believed to be a crossbow, but other weapons may also have been used”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A primary school in nearby Enfield kept children indoors during the police search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no licence required to own a crossbow in the UK, but it is illegal to carry one in public without a reasonable excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interior minister Yvette Cooper called the deaths “truly shocking” and said she was being kept updated about the inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, a 47-year-old man was arrested after two people were injured in separate crossbow attacks in London’s Shoreditch area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last October Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was jailed after being found in the grounds of Windsor Castle, west of London, with a loaded crossbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He broke into the royal residence on Christmas Day 2021 and\u00a0told police he was trying to kill Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON, July 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — United Kingdom police said that a 26-year-old man was in custody after the wife and two daughters of a radio racing commentator were killed with a crossbow in a suspected “targeted” attack. Kyle Clifford, from Enfield in north London, was wanted in connection with the deaths of the three women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":269842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269844,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269841\/revisions\/269844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}