Alex Jones can’t use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying Sandy Hook families

Alex Jones (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

A US judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than 1.1 billion dollars (£906 million) to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax.

The decision is another significant defeat for Jones after juries in Texas and Connecticut punished him over spreading falsehoods about the nation’s deadliest school shooting.