Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $45.2m in punitive damages to the family of a Sandy Hook victim by a Texas jury, in addition to the $4.11m he must already pay them in compensatory damages.
The right-wing conspiracy theorist was not in court as the jury in Travis County, Texas, returned its unanimous verdict against him late yesterday afternoon.
Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse was among the 20 students and six adults killed in the mass shooting, sued Jones and his media company Infowars for the claims he has made that the massacre was a "false flag" operation and that the victims did not actually exist.
The jury's decision came just a day after it found that Jones should pay $4.11m in compensatory damages to the family.
This story is from the August 06, 2022 edition of The Independent.
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