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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jess Glass

Manchester Arena survivors damages ruling is ‘message to conspiracy theorists’

Martin Hibbert outside the Royal Courts of Justice (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

A ruling that a man who claims the Manchester Arena attack was staged should pay £45,000 in damages to two harassed survivors “sends out a message to conspiracy theorists”, one of the injured has said.

Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve sued former television producer Richard Hall for harassment over his claims in several videos and a book that the attack was a state-orchestrated hoax, with the pair involved as “crisis actors”.

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