UK concert bombing survivors sue conspiracy theorist for all...

UK concert bombing survivors sue conspiracy theorist for alleged harassment

The Straits Times | 2024-07-22 11:44

LONDON - Two survivors of a deadly suicide bombing in Britain are suing a conspiracy theorist who claims the attack was staged - a case with echoes of lawsuits brought by relatives of those killed in a mass school shooting in the United States. Martin Hibbert was paralysed from the waist down and his daughter Eve, then 14, suffered a catastrophic brain injury in the attack after an Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester, northern England, in 2017. They are suing Richard D. Hall - a self-styled journalist who claims without evidence that the attack was orchestrated by British government agencies - for alleged harassment, misuse of private information and breaches of data protection laws. The case bears similarities to defamation lawsuits brought against U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones by relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Twenty-two people were killed an...

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