Parents’ bid to collect money Alex Jones owes for Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ claim halted

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones speaks to the media after arriving at court for an earlier hearing (David J Phillip/AP)

A federal bankruptcy judge has stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting some of the $50 million (£39.5 million) they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax.

Lawyers for Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son Jesse Lewis died in the 2012 Connecticut, US, shooting, had obtained an order from a state judge in Texas earlier this month allowing them to begin collecting some assets from Jones’ company, Infowars’ parent Free Speech Systems.