Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the family members of a BBC commentator being killed in a crossbow attack

The three women killed in a UK crossbow attack are understood to be the wife and two daughters of a well-known BBC commentator.

British police have found the 26-year-old suspect behind the attack, who is currently undergoing medical treatment for injuries.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the country is in shock after the attack.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Radio UK correspondence with us.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Now, Inda, hello head, they're great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Inda. How much are you fizzling over that football?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well? Look, I have an English wife and two children
here who flipped away between supporting the Irish rugby team
and the English soccer team. So I was trapped last night. Really,
you know, I was sitting here kind of cheering anytime
the Dutch got a corner or a kicker.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
You can't be living in the country and behaving like this.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Ah. Look I support the Ireland team. And look there
the Irish people listening to this who will agree with
me completely. And there were the English people who say, oh,
you're a disgrace. Look, it's part of the wissy banter
of living in the Irish Isles, as I call them. Look,
let's see how they do. Good luck to England. I
mean I've actually coached three of those boys when there
were kids about how to speak on radio on TV.

(00:49):
So I'm very proud of them. And it's amazing to
see youngsters go from sixteen seventeen years of age to
now playing international soccer on the world stage. To be
very difficult. I mean, Spain are just the classic part
and to have a boy. If you haven't seen this yet,
there's a boy and he is a boy playing for Spain.
He's currently sixteen. He turned seventeen before the weekend, so

(01:11):
he will play in the final Lamin Yamal. I think
he's the next big thing after you know, we're waiting
to see who the next Ronald though. MESSI is Lamin Yamal.
He will play in the final for Spain and he
will have just gone seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Gee, he does look really young. I just quickly googled
him right, he is a boy. Good on him, man,
what a future? Now, Inda, have they found the guy
who did the crossbow.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Ate and arrest has been made. They took the unusual
step here the Metropolitan Police of issuing a name and
a picture of the suspect, Kyle Clifford, as he's now
twenty six years of age. Now it turns out he
was previously in a relationship with one of the victims.
He is arrested. He was found in the cemetery in

(01:54):
North London yesterday. Police obviously got a tip off. He
was found injured. Now armed police moved, no shots were
fired and a twenty six year old man was removed
from that graveyard and taken the hospital because of his injuries.
So at some point today he will be spoken to
by detectives. But the country is in shock and the
community of Bushy, which is a small commuter place outside Watford,

(02:17):
north of London, people are devastated. A crossbow was the
weapon that was used in the triple murder. The victims
are Carol Hunt, who was sixty one, and two daughters
who are twenty eight and twenty five, and they are
the family of John Hunt, the BBC horse racing commentator.
People are just absolutely stunned. And I should say John,

(02:38):
it is just such a popular figure in broadcasting and
in horse racing here in the UK. Everyone thinking of him.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Devastating is that his entire family, Inda.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
We believe so, oh right?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
How tough is that? I that's really rough. What about
the IRSA hostess now, so she apparently attempted suicide in
Dubai and was then what detained.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
For It was the victim of a domestic beating. She
was battered senseless allegedly in her own home and when
she went looking for hospital treatment, instead of getting hospital treatment,
she walk up in a police station. This has caused
outrage in Ireland and the sequence of events. Tory Towie

(03:18):
is the girl's name. She's twenty six. She's an air
hostess with Emirates living in Dubai. She did attempt suicide.
They smelled alcohol on her breath and she was immediately
arrested attempting suicide as a criminal offense in Dubai. Believe
it or not, we learned that this week she was
thrown in a prison cell and her Irish passport was

(03:39):
taken off her and confiscated. It's destroyed by the way.
They've actually destroyed the passport. Now what has happened is
the family got in touch with politicians in Ireland. Mary
lou MacDonald of Shinfein, who a lot of people think
could be our next prime minister or Tea Shock. She
raised the case in the Irish Parliament, the Doll in
Dublin and immediately the Tea Shock Simon Harris Prime Minister.

(04:01):
He got in touch with the authorities in the UAE,
and now she's being given a new passport. The charges
have been dropped and they're trying to get her a
flight out of Dubai. But it has put Dubai on
the front pages in Ireland. This is a place that
a lot of people are of Irish people go to
party and you know, drink and have a laugh. There
is a very sinister underbelly to that place. Absolutely in

(04:22):
this case is just what a disgrace. Young woman allegedly
beaten in her own home, tries to kill herself and
they arrest her.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, that's that is quite concerning. Inda, I really appreciate
you talking us through that stuff in The Brady UK Correspondent.
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