A High Court Judge has ruled that a man who published and broadcast theories that the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing was an ‘elaborate hoax’ and was guilty of harassing survivors pay them a total of £45,000 in damages.
Richard Hall, a self-described ‘journalist’, claimed that the terrorist attack, which killed 22 people on May 22, 2017, had been ‘staged’, and that victims were actually unharmed ‘crisis actors’.
He had specifically alleged that victims Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve had not been at the concert that night and did not suffer their injuries there.
Today at the High Court in London the Honourable Mrs Justice Steyn ruled that as well as paying damages of £22,500 to Mr Hibbert and £22,500 to his daughter Eve for harassment, Mr Hall be served with an injunction to prevent him from continuing to do so.
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