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Edward Helmore

Sandy Hook relatives ask bankruptcy judge to liquidate Alex Jones company

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Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, in this 2018 photograph. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Relatives of the Sandy Hook elementary school victims who won more than $1.5bn against the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claim that the 2012 mass shooting was a hoax to force Americans to accept gun control are demanding his businesses be liquidated.

In a letter to a bankruptcy court judge on Sunday, relatives of those killed in the shooting, which left 20 children and six educators dead, requested the rejection of Jones’s petition to financially reorganize his company, which includes Infowars.

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