British police have arrested a man on suspicion of killing two sisters and their mother in a crossbow attack.
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Hertfordshire Police said they arrested the suspect on Thursday evening.
He remains in a serious condition in a hospital.
Police previously said Kyle Clifford, 26, was captured on Wednesday in a cemetery near his home in Enfield, about 20km from the scene of the crimes, following a near day-long manhunt.
Officers who found Clifford recovered a crossbow and took him away on a stretcher from Lavender Hill Cemetery with undisclosed injuries.
Police said no shots had been fired.
The three women - the family of a well-known BBC radio commentator - were found with serious injuries at their home in the quiet residential neighbourhood of Bushey, northeast of the capital, on Tuesday evening.
Police and ambulance crews tried to save Carol Hunt, 61, and her daughters Hannah, 28, and Louise, 25, but they were pronounced dead at the scene.
The women were the wife and two of the three daughters of John Hunt, a horse-racing commentator for BBC 5 Live, the corporation's news and sports radio channel.
His voice is known to millions through his coverage of the world famous Grand National and The Derby.
At a memorial service on Thursday at St James' Church nearby, shocked friends and neighbours expressed their sympathies for John Hunt and his one remaining daughter.
Others laid flowers near the scene of the attack, which remained cordoned off.
Police have not yet said how or whether Clifford was connected to the women, but said they believed the attack was targeted.
British media reported that Clifford was an ex-boyfriend of one of the victims.
As well as searching Clifford's house, police were also seen at a house linked to his brother, Bradley Clifford, who was jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for the murder of moped passenger Soban Khan in 2018.
People in Britain do not need a licence to own a crossbow, but it is illegal to carry one in public without a reasonable excuse.
Keir Starmer, the Labour prime minister who took office last week, relayed his condolences and said the government was looking at tightening the legislation on crossbows.
"In relation to crossbows, the home secretary has announced that she will will look at the legislation and we will, but there's no getting away from just how awful this incident was," Starmer told the BBC while at a NATO meeting in Washington.
Australian Associated Press
