Alex Jones gives evidence at trial over his Sandy Hook hoax lies

Alex Jones, right, enters court with members of his security team (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media/AP)

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones took to the witness box at his defamation trial as he and his lawyer try to limit the damages he must pay for promoting the lie that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

More than a dozen family members of some of the 20 children and six teachers killed in the shooting also showed up to observe Jones’s evidence in Waterbury Superior Court, which is about 20 miles from Newtown.