Manchester Arena bomb survivors to find out whether harassment claim successful

Two survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing are owed to find retired whether they person won a High Court harassment lawsuit against a erstwhile tv shaper who believes the onslaught was staged.

Martin Hibbert and his girl Eve are suing erstwhile tv shaper Richard Hall for harassment and information extortion implicit his claims successful respective videos and a publication that the onslaught was staged.

The begetter and girl were astatine the Ariana Grande performance successful May 2017 and suffered life-changing injuries, with Mr Hibbert near with a spinal cord wounded and Miss Hibbert facing terrible encephalon damage.

But Mr Hall has claimed his actions – including an incidental of filming Miss Hibbert extracurricular her location – were successful the nationalist involvement arsenic a writer and that “millions of radical person bought a lie” astir the attack.

He told the London tribunal successful a three-and-a-half-day proceedings successful July: “The superior grounds shows determination was nary weaponry successful that country that exploded.”

Mrs Justice Steyn is present owed to springiness her determination connected the lawsuit successful penning connected Wednesday.

Salman Abedi killed 22 radical and injured hundreds erstwhile helium detonated the homemade rucksack-bomb successful the assemblage of concert-goers, with the tribunal told that the Hibberts were immoderate of the nearest radical to him astatine the clip of the blast.

Mr Hall has claimed that respective of those who died are surviving overseas oregon were dormant earlier the attack, telling the tribunal helium believed that no-one was “genuinely injured” successful the bombing.

But Jonathan Price, for the Hibberts, said the brace were immoderate of the closest to Abedi erstwhile helium detonated the weaponry and that the onslaught changed Mr Hibbert’s beingness “in each conceivable way”.

“They person some suffered life-changing injuries from which they volition ne'er recover,” the barrister said.

The tribunal heard that Mr Hibbert received 22 wounds from shrapnel, and Miss Hibbert suffered a “catastrophic encephalon injury” aft a bolt from the weaponry struck her successful the caput – starring to her being presumed dormant astatine the scene.

Mr Price added: “Martin, paralysed, saw Eve lying adjacent to him with a spread successful her caput and assumed helium was watching her die, incapable to help. He saw others lying dormant oregon injured astir him.”

Mrs Justice Steyn’s judgement is owed to beryllium handed down astatine 10.30am.