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{"id":71483,"date":"2023-05-11T06:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/?p=71483"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:21:02","slug":"manchester-arena-bomb-survivors-sue-conspiracy-theorist-richard-d-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/manchester-arena-bomb-survivors-sue-conspiracy-theorist-richard-d-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Arena bomb survivors sue conspiracy theorist Richard D Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing have filed a landmark legal action against a\u00a0conspiracy theorist who accuses them of being ‘crisis actors’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martin and Eve Hibbert, who were left with severe disabilities after the 2017 terror attack, are suing Richard D Hall for defamation and harassment over his vile claim that they helped fake the tragedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The blast during an concert injured hundreds\u00a0and killed 22 people, with the youngest victim being eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos.<\/p>\n

However, former web designer Hall tracked down maimed survivors to secretly film them outside their homes in an attempt to ‘prove’ they were lying about their injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The case against Hall is the first time such action has been taken against a British conspiracy theorist.In the US, was recently ordered to pay nearly $1.5billion to families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Richard D Hall is being sued after claiming some of the victims of the Manchester bombings had been part of a hoax.He is pictured showing off a secret camera he used to film survivors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mr Hibbert was just 15ft from the bomb when it detonated, showering him with 22 pieces of shrapnel that left him paralysed from the waist down.<\/p>\n

His daughter Eve, then 14, lost the use of one arm and leg due to a brain injury she received.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2020, Hall released his own documentary and book claiming Salman Abedi, an Islamic State fanatic, was not behind the killings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And last year, that he had spied on Miss Hibbert from a car parked outside her house.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hall did not respond to request for comment at the news that a case had been filed against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite Eve leaving the house in a wheelchair, Hall said there was ‘no evidence’ that the injury was a result of the attack.<\/p>\n

He has since apologised ‘for any upset caused’, adding in a statement on his website: ‘My actions were motivated by a strong desire to search for the truth about what happened.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Hibbert told Panorama: ‘I’m all for freedom of speech but it crosses the line when you’re saying I’m an actor or I’ve not got a spinal cord injury or Eve’s not disabled, she’s not in a wheelchair.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hibberts are now seeking an\u00a0injunction to restrain Hall from making similar allegations in future and damages for some of the harm he has caused them.<\/p>\n

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Martin Hibbert was paralysed during the Manchester bombings.He is pictured speaking to BBC Panorama\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Hibbert’s daughter, EvDEN EVe nAkLiyAT<\/a> – who he is pictured with – suffered serious injuries during the terror attack in May 2017 and lost the use of an arm and a leg\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Neil Hudgell, EvdEn eVE nakliyAT<\/a> a lawyer representing the family, said he hoped a judgment against the fantasist could set a precedent to help protect future victims from conspiracy trolls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Hibbert, a\u00a0former football agent, of Chorley, Lancashire, has previously accused Hall of exploiting survivors to make money.<\/p>\n

‘He is profiting from other people’s suffering and I won’t have it,’ he told the .\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘He can say what he wants about me but when it comes after my daughter and those people who have lost loved ones it’s too far.We have enough to deal with just getting through day-to-day life without him.<\/p>\n

‘Eve is now 20 years old and is still in and out of hospital because of complications with her injuries<\/a>. How dare someone say she was acting.’<\/p>\n

The action against Hall comes after a landmark judgment against US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who claimed the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting was a fake.<\/p>\n

Jones, who runs the fake news website ‘Info Wars’, was ordered to pay at least $965million to the families of the 20 students and six teachers killed in the massacre after he repeatedly and falsely claimed they and their loved ones were actors who faked the tragedy.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old’s lies meant the families had to deal with years of harassment and threats from the far-Right presenter’s followers, on top of their grief.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hall has recently had his 80,000-strong YouTube account removed following the BBC investigation.<\/p>\n

His previous videos have covered the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, murder of MP Jo Cox, Covid-19 and the 9\/11 terror attacks.<\/p>\n

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The bombing left 22 people dead and hundreds more injured.Pictured are police at the scene in the aftermath of the atrocity\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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