Dad and daughter sue man who claims Arena bombing was a 'hoax'

ACCUSED OF HARASSMENT AND DATA PROTECTION BREACHES

- PAUL BRITTON

THE Manchester Arena terror atrocity affected a survivor’s life ‘in every conceivable way’, the High Court has heard at the start of a harassment trial against a man who claims the bombing was faked as an ‘elaborate hoax’ and actors used.

Martin and Eve Hibbert are suing self-described journalist Richard Hall for harassment and data protection breaches.

The father and daughter were at the Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 and suffered life-changing injuries, with Mr Hibbert left with a spinal cord injury and Ms Hibbert facing severe brain damage.

However, Mr Hall has claimed that the attack, in which Salman Abedi detonated a homemade rucksack bomb in the crowd of concert-goers, was faked by government agencies with ‘crisis actors’ used.

Mr Hall is being sued over several videos and a book in which he has made claims that the bombing was a ‘hoax’, as well as ‘secretly filming’ Eve and her mother at their house.