KYLE CLIFFORD’S decision to “turn to Andrew Tate” the night before he murdered three women was “no coincidence,” a court heard today before he was handed a whole-life order for the killings.

Mr Clifford, 26, refused to appear in court to face his victims’ family as he was sentenced for murdering his ex-partner Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother Carol.

A judge described him as a “jealous man soaked in self-pity who holds women in utter contempt.”

Cambridge Crown Court was told the attack was fuelled by “violent misogyny” linked to Mr Tate’s influence, with prosecutors revealing that Mr Clifford had searched for the figure’s podcast less than 24 hours before the killings.

Prosecutor Alison Morgan KC told the court: “Andrew Tate can properly be described as a poster boy for misogynists, a poster boy for those who view women as possessions to be controlled.

“In that context and in light of all the other background material, it is no coincidence that it was Andrew Tate that the defendant turned to the night before he would go off to commit these acts of violence against women.”