Jurors will deliberate again after ordering rightwing broadcaster to pay compensatory damages for spreading conspiracy theories
Lawyers for parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting are expected to present evidence on Alex Jones’s wealth to jurors in Texas on Friday as they seek punitive damages beyond the $4.1m they secured a day ago for the US conspiracy theorist’s falsehoods about the massacre.
A 12-person jury on Thursday said Jones must pay the parents $4.1m in compensatory damages for spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of 20 children and six staff at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on 14 December 2012, which the rightwing broadcaster claimed was a hoax.
