Manchester Arena attack survivor calls for protection from conspiracy theorists Martin Hibbert says his family were terrified after YouTuber who claimed they were ‘crisis actors’ covertly filmed them.
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”.
Hall, a former engineer and TV producer, had also spread conspiracy theories about the murders of Jo Cox and Jill Dando, the Westminster Bridge terrorist attack, the Salisbury poisonings and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The father and daughter were awarded £45,000 in damages in October after suing a former TV producer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed in online films that the attack was staged.
In videos viewed tens of thousands of times, Richard Hall described the Arena bomb as a “well-organised and well-planned fake terrorist incident involving over 100 enlisted participants or actors” and that it involved “fabricated deaths”.
