Manchester attack survivor calls for legal protection from conspiracists

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".

- Josh Halliday

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.

They were the closest people to the suicide bomber to survive but Eve suffered a severe brain injury and Hibbert, 48, was paralysed when his spinal cord was severed by shrapnel.

They were awarded £45,000 in damages in October after suing a former TV producer turned conspiracy theorist who claimed 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".