Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder
Jury was not told former soldier convicted of murder and now rape was interested in misogynist influencer

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/06/kyle-clifford-watched-andrew-tate-videos-before-triple

"Less than 24 hours before Kyle Clifford committed the triple murder which would leave his ex-girlfriend, Louise Hunt, her sister and mother dead, he was searching the internet for misogynistic podcasts.
What was not revealed to the jury – who have now found the former soldier guilty of rape, adding to his previous admissions of murder – was that the 26-year-old was listening to the influencer Andrew Tate.
Clifford had watched up to 10 videos of the self-styled misogynist influencer before he assaulted Louise in what the prosecution described as a “final act of spite”.
Incandescent with rage that she had ended their 18-month relationship, Clifford began plotting an attack on the Hunt family by researching and buying weapons while watching pornography, including a video of a prison officer having sex with an inmate.
Prosecutors claimed “the sort of violent misogyny promoted by Tate is the same type of motivation that … fuelled both the murders and the rape”, the four-day trial heard.
But the judge, Mr Justice Bennathan, ruled that the jury could not hear evidence regarding the killer’s interest in Tate, saying it was “deeply prejudicial” to his rape trial because the influencer was “almost a poster boy for misogynists”.
He told the court: “It may well be that one who takes a close interest in Tate, other than law enforcement officials, could be seen as a misogynist.” But he conceded he could see the “potential relevance” of the material.
On Thursday, Clifford was found guilty of raping Louise before murdering her with a crossbow at her family home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, on 9 July last year. He admitted the murders of Louise, her sister, Hannah, 28, and their mother, Carol, 61, at an earlier hearing, but denied rape. The women were the wife and daughters of the BBC racing commentator John Hunt.
The trial heard that Clifford was a man who sought women’s admiration and did not like to be told “no” by them. He joined the dating website Hinge on the day Louise ended their relationship after confiding in friends that he had a nasty temper and behaved in an aggressive manner.
It can now be revealed that one of the reasons Louise and her friends turned against Clifford was because he played them a Tate video involving animals being harmed which he found “funny”.
“That’s one of the reasons they indicated a distaste for him,” DCI Nick Gardner from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire major crime unit, said at a press briefing.
“There were comments that he would make about violence being OK and quite sort of macho comments of a road rage incident where he’s cut up and he finds it entirely OK to get out his car and berate this individual. He’s telling people these stories, that’s where Louise kind of decides he’s not the man for me, that he’s not the man I thought he was.”
The prosecutor, Alison Morgan KC, had argued that the material Clifford was searching, including pornography, was important because it showed “how he views women and why sexualised violence is an important part of the attack”."


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