Manchester Arena attack survivor calls for protection from conspiracy theorists

Martin Hibbert speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after the trial of his lawsuit against Richard Hall. Photograph: Sam Tobin/Reuters

A survivor of the Manchester Arena attack is calling for greater legal protections from conspiracy theorists after a YouTuber with millions of viewers secretly filmed his family to try to prove they were “crisis actors”.

Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve, now 22, were left with life-changing injuries by the blast, which killed 22 people and wounded hundreds more at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017.