Judge rules Alex Jones’ assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt

Twenty children aged six and seven were among 26 people killed in the school shooting in Connecticut in 2012.

Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at court in Houston, Texas, for a hearing in front of a bankruptcy judge on Friday (David J Phillip/AP)

A judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case.

The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion dollars (€1.4bn) for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.