Watch: John Hunt on the fund he hopes will help women in need

John Hunt spoke on Wednesday night about standing shoulder to shoulder with women in need and his hopes that the Hunt Family Fund will help those in crisis.

The BBC Racing commentator’s wife, Carol, and two daughters Hannah and Louise, were murdered in July of last year by Kyle Clifford, who a trial heard had became “enraged” when Louise ended their 18-month relationship, leading him to plan the attack.

Many of Hunt's friends had a great need to do something in the aftermath and floated the idea of fund-raising earlier this year. 

The online silent auction remains open with the proceeds going to the Hunt Family Fund. There are more than 25 spectacular items on offer.  In addition to making a bid, there is the opportunity to make a donation.

In an 18-minute interview with Racing TV’s Tom Bull at Kempton on Wednesday night, Hunt spoke movingly about his own loss and the possibility of some good emerging from the tragedy.

“Hopefully they'll [the organisers of the Fund] will be in a position to spread out a fair bit of cash to people, women in particular, who need it at points of crisis,” he said. “ I think it's it's an old saying that there is a possibility for something good to emerge.

“We will never ever get our lives back, we'll never ever be able to replicate what we had before last July, but we just know that there are thousands of women out there, in particular, who are heading towards Christmas this year really, really struggling and worried.

“Sadly, it is a fact the stats show it that between us talking now and us carving turkey on Christmas Day, it's likely that six women will be killed at the hands of men, and the ramifications that of that are just awful.”

“We will never ever get our lives back, we'll never ever be able to replicate what we had before last July, but we just know that there are thousands of women out there, in particular, who are heading towards Christmas this year really, really struggling and worried.

“Sadly, it is a fact the stats show it that between us talking now and us carving turkey on Christmas Day, it's likely that six women will be killed at the hands of men, and the ramifications that of that are just awful.

"We are there standing shoulder to shoulder with women in need."