BBC Five Live racing commentator John Hunt’s wife and two daughters who were ‘tied up and shot dead with crossbow by an ex-boyfriend’ in their home as manhunt continues for ‘killer’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13619771/BBC-Five-Live-racing-commentator-John-Hunt-wife-two-daughters-shot-dead-home-crossbow-suspect-26-remains-large.html

by WeightDimensions

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  1. > Mother Carol, 61, and daughters Louise, 25, and Hannah, 28, were found seriously injured at their £800,000 detached home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, last night.

    So unbelievably on-brand for the Mail to include the price of the house in an article like this.

  2. Poor bastard has lost his entire world, his last tweet being can we “please fast forward to Wednesday” feels very chilling.

    I hope they throw the book at the suspect, the level of evil and depravity shown here is horrifying

  3. I did always wonder why crossbows were legal. Recently, I was considering buying one for the novelty and/or self-defense.

    I was unsure of how lethal the various kinds could be, though.

  4. Why is killer in quotes? They were killed ergo there is a killer

  6. My god. How does a person even come to terms with a loss like this?

    Just beyond devastating. What the fuck.

  7. I used to own a crossbow. They are terrifying things. Very easy to use, practically silent, and can be incredibly powerful.

    You can buy some absolutely wicked bolts with /r/MallNinjaShit heads on, that cannot be justified in any sane way. (But even standard bolts are extremely lethal.)

    They are slow to reload, which might be why they haven’t been regulated, but in this case it sounds like it was almost used like a knife, given the victims were tied up. And they’re not as slow to reload as you might think from films, so could still do appalling damage in a public space.

    We just used ours for target practice, and it was dismantled and locked in a gun safe after use. Got rid of it when we got rid of our guns (sold the farm).

    Looking back it’s mad how easy it was to get one.

  8. Is that his whole family? Oh my god life is too cruel. I wish him some sort of recovery from this, however long it takes.

  9. Imagine going home after work to relax and instead walk into a nightmare

  10. God that’s so horrible. I imagine it takes sometime to reload a crossbow so 2 of the 3 had to watch the another person die before they got killed themselves knowing it would happen. Horrible horrible stuff. I’m not sure I would want to live if I was the dad/husband.

  11. Absolutely bizarre feeling this. I’ve heard him many a weekend covering 5live sport. And to now learn of the extremely disturbing deaths of his most cherished close family….it feels weirdly invasive for some reason. Why can’t women-hating twats like the murderer just do everyone a favour and kill only themselves?

  12. Cowardly disgusting fucker to target unarmed women because one of them made him feel rejected.

  13. Why are people yapping about the legality of crossbows when they were tied up inside a house? Could’ve used a knife or even a fork at that point.

  14. To think that this evil person ended three people’s lives. Ruined the lives of those close to them. Disgusting. All because he felt rejected. These people were supposed to live out their lives, I hope he is caught swiftly and punished to to the full extent of the law

  15. What the fuck is it with Men these days, First we had that fucking Plum guy, Now this fucking utter human waste of space.

  16. I want to have a conversation with anyone who would do this, looking at crime shows. Like throwing away your whole life because one girl isn’t available to you at 20 years old?

  17. I reckon the killer was in relationship with one of the the daughters.

  18. > He had been working at Lingfield Park Racecourse in Surrey yesterday before returning home in the evening to discover the horror that had unfolded.

    Oh my fucking god. That poor man. And the women, obviously, but imagine coming home to that.

  19. Louise reposted on her twitter last week:

    I admire women who leave. idgaf if you left after the 1st time or the 12th time I admire that shit! idgaf if ppl was calling you dümb for 11 years but in the 12th year you decided you was done. it takes ALOT of strength to break a tie. it takes ALOT of self love to choose yo self

    😔

  20. I hope they catch him before he decides to kill himself so that he has to spend plenty of time in prison

  21. This story has sickened me to the pit of my stomach. No words.

    RIP to the victims and my sympathies to John Hunt.

  22. Who gives a shit about their house price?
    They were horribly murdered in front of each other,one would of seen him shoot both her sister and mum or mum would of seen her two daughters killed while knowing they were next,left to die and be found by husband/father.
    RIP poor ladies.

  23. – NON-DAILY-MAIL LINK HERE –

    Thank you for posting this, u/WeightDimensions – but please NB that the Daily Mail is an abominable publication that’s done incalculable damage to British society. 

    Please, where possible, find alternative sources which do not benefit that hideous rag. Thank you so much in advance.

    Here is a link to the (live) BBC story:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6p284ng14yt

  24. Probably the 10th story this year that’s made me think we should bring back the death penalty.

  25. He would have gone off and killed himself. The coward. As thats a full life tariff.

    Where has this mentality come from where if you break up with someone the ex goes batshit. We see far too many of these murder suicide shit.

  26. This is so heartbreaking. I can’t begin to imagine the man’s devastation. The perpetrator needs to be tortured, slowly and without clemency.

  27. They’re not going to get with anything short of a life sentence

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