BBC star praises daughters support after heartbreaking | UK News

In a new episode of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which was launched on New Year’s Eve, BBC racing commentator John Hunt sat down with his daughter Amy and Queen Camilla to have a dialogue on violence against ladies.

The dialogue comes after John’s spouse, Carol, and their two daughters, Louise and Hannah, have been murdered in their home last July by Louise’s ex-partner, Kyle Clifford.

Part of the interview was performed during Wednesday’s episode of BBC Breakfast, which noticed John reward his daughter Amy for her support during the past yr.

He commented: “I’m staggered that we’re as well as we are at this particular moment in time. There’s still a lot more work to do.

“At the risk of embarrassing Amy, she’s been my best counsel from the phrase go. We speak all the time. I used to say, ‘I could not do it without you’, but now I say, ‘I can do it with you’.”

Following the heartbreaking deaths of his family members, John and Amy are now working on creating a positive legacy for Carol, Louise and Hannah.

Amy commented: “I believe it is actually important to bear in mind, that they had a unhappy death, but they didn’t have a unhappy life. Their life was full of so a lot love and pleasure and happiness and enjoyable.”

John and Amy have now set up the Hunt Family Foundation, which will support projects that inspire young women.

During their discussion, Queen Camilla shared her own experience with indecent assault when she was a teenager. She explained: “I used to be attacked on a prepare, I’d type of forgotten about it, but I bear in mind that I’d been so indignant.”

Queen Camilla shared that when she got off the train, her mother questioned why her hair was standing on end and why there was a button missing from her coat.

Addressing John and Amy directly, she added: “I just need to say, wherever your loved ones is now, they’d be so proud of you both.

“They must be, from above, smiling down on you and thinking, ‘my goodness me what a wonderful, wonderful father and husband, sister’. They’d just be so proud of you both.”

Following the horrific ordeal, the triple assassin and convicted rapist Kyle Clifford was given three entire life orders in March this yr.

In March, Detective Chief Inspector Nick Gardner, of the BCH Major Crime Unit, said: “This has been a harrowing case and while we welcome the whole life orders, it will never make up for the loss of Louise, Hannah and Carol – three vibrant women in the prime of their lives.

“The Hunt household have shown immense dignity and composure throughout this horrendous time and my ideas stay with them.

“Clifford has again shown himself to be a coward. Clifford armed himself with a crossbow and knife in order to attack three innocent women. They resisted him bravely, with Hannah raising the alarm, which ultimately helped police catch Clifford.”

People can hear to the entire interview BBC Radio 4’s Today programme with John, Amy, Queen Camilla and Baroness Teresa Mayon on BBC Sounds.

BBC Breakfast is on the market to watch on BBC iPlayer.