Where is the action on crossbows?

Eight months after the brutal murders of three women, campaigners ask:

- By Jon Austin

HOME Secretary Yvette Cooper has been slammed for her lack of action to limit access to deadly crossbows eight months on from the sickening murders of three women in their own home.

Former soldier Kyle Clifford was convicted of the rape of his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt, 25, in Bushey, Hertfordshire, at a trial he refused to attend on Thursday.

He had earlier pleaded guilty in January to her murder and that of her sister Hannah, 28, and their mother Carol, 61, the wife of BBC racing commentator John Hunt.

Clifford, 26, carried out the horrific murders armed with a crossbow and knife in revenge for Louise splitting up with him 13 days earlier.

He was arrested after shooting himself with the crossbow, leaving him paralysed.

The murders took place on July 9 last year, just five days after Ms Cooper became Home Secretary after the General Election.