Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder

Kyle Clifford was seen buying rope, a crossbow, an air pistol, a 25cm butcher’s knife and two cans of petrol before the attack last July. Composite: Hertfordshire police

Less than 24 hours before Kyle Clifford committed the triple murder that would leave his ex-girlfriend, Louise Hunt, her sister and mother dead, he searched 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 had listened to the influencer Andrew Tate.