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

Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin’s six-year-old son Jesse Lewis died in the 2012 Connecticut shooting.

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 dollars (£39.5 million) they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims that the massacre was a hoax.