The jury stated that theorist Alex Jones ought to pay practically $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook households.

Washington:

A US jury ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Wednesday to pay practically $1 billion in damages for falsely claiming that the lethal 2012 Sandy Hook elementary faculty capturing was a “hoax.”

The jury in Connecticut, after three days of deliberations, awarded $965 million to the households of eight Sandy Hook victims and an FBI agent who introduced the defamation case in opposition to Jones.

Jones, founding father of the web site InfoWars and host of a preferred radio present, has been discovered liable in a number of defamation lawsuits introduced by mother and father of the victims of the capturing in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 20 kids and 6 lecturers lifeless.

The 48-year-old Jones claimed for years on his present that the Sandy Hook capturing was “staged” by gun management activists and that the mother and father have been “crisis actors,” however has since acknowledged it was “100 percent real.”

A Texas jury ordered Jones final month to pay practically $50 million in damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse was killed by the 20-year-old gunman behind the Sandy Hook capturing.

The newest damages trial was held in Waterbury, Connecticut, lower than 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Newtown.

InfoWars declared chapter in April and one other firm owned by Jones, Free Speech Systems, additionally just lately filed for chapter.

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