State fabricated terror in Manchester
What happened at the Manchester Arena concert by Ariana Grande, on 22nd of May, 2017, and why has Hall been prosecuted for investigating the matter?
It was a tremendous conclusion to her ‘Dangerous woman’ tour – and, how very considerate of the terrorist to wait until the conclusion of her concert, before blowing himself up!
There now exist three textbooks on the subject, and they fundamentally agree about what happened:
False Flags over Europe A Modern History of False-Flag Terror 2020, by this author
Richard D. Hall, The Night of the Bang, 2022 – deleted by Amazon, but free PDF
Iain Davis: The Manchester attack, an Independent Investigation 2024
In addition, since Hall’s court case, a comprehensive series of articles have been appearing by David Hughes (sixteen so far) and I suggest everyone should at least read the first one: ‘The Law vs. The Truth: Getting to the Bottom of the Richard D. Hall Case.’[1]
I can lift thirty kilos, just about, but doubt whether I could haul it up into the Manchester arena. And yet that is what the official government report stated was carried by Mr Abedi, the MI-5 groomed ‘terrorist,’ in May of 2017. There are pictures of him carrying his rucksack, and all sources agree that he went into the foyer at the side of the great Arena, called the ‘City Room,’ where he set off what was either a bomb or a pyrotechnic device of some kind. The Saunders Inquiry (2022-3) into the Event – three volumes, each a couple of hundred pages, stated that he had packed three thousand bits of shrapnel into a weighty terror ‘bomb.’ Is it really believable that a suspicious-looking Libyan fellow could just wander into a huge concert by Ariana Grande without a ticket carrying a massive rucksack without being checked?
Two vastly different narratives exist as regards what happened that night and only one can be true. Did a thirty-kilo bomb go off, which would have left blood spattered everywhere from all the parents who had been waiting in that side-room – for their teenage kids to come out from the concert – with shattered windows and the ‘terrorist’ committing suicide (for no reason); or, was the whole event fake, using a pyrotechnic device to produce smoke, a flash of light and a bang, with in the aftermath some fairly bored-looking crisis actors hanging about, lying on the floor etc., with fake ‘blood’ smeared here and there? Can we hope to discern which of these two ‘realities’ is correct? Two different worlds are conjured up by these narratives: either it was done by a wicked, darker-skin terrorist from Libya, bent on blowing up himself with loads of innocent citizens, gathered together to have fun, for no reason – or, the Government is behind it: the usual MI6-CIA-Mossad trio involved in plotting, in order to undermine the human race and to make sure that everyone remains living in a state of fear. Whatever the answer, we’d better get it right. The very future of our civilisation does surely depend upon it.
Only one investigative journalist has researched the whole matter; has inspected and classified all of the CCTV that has been released, interviewed lots of people and posted many videos online – and for his trouble has been fined three hundred thousand pounds[2] by the High Court of Justice in London in December of 2024. Plus, he has been ordered to remove all of his videos relating to the Manchester event. He’s not for example allowed to hand someone a memory-stick containing all of his Manchester-event videos, or he’d be in danger of being sent to prison for violating the terms imposed upon him. The main collection of some twenty videos evaluating the Manchester Arena event by Richard D. Hall are now removed from public view.
He was prosecuted and found guilty because he is deemed to have harassed two people viz. Martin and Eve Hibbert, who were allegedly at the concert. At no time had he attempted to contact them personally. How does one harass someone while making no attempt to contact them? He made no videos specifically about them, nor did he pursue them or verbally abuse them and only wrote one letter to one of them requesting information but received no reply. He concluded that neither Mr Martin Hibbert nor his daughter Eve had actually been present at the concert that evening. A picture of the two of them at a Manchester restaurant had indeed been uploaded at 6.53 pm that evening, showing that at some time they been present there. Hall scrutinised the two scars on Hibbert’s back, to ascertain whether they validated his claim to have been penetrated by 22 pieces of shrapnel and concluded in the negative, as likewise for the claim that a piece of shrapnel had entered into his daughter Eve’s skull, penetrated it and exited on the other side.
His four-hundred page book (now banned and deleted from Amazon, despite having received many five-star reviews) did conclude that most of those allegedly wounded the concert were crisis actors and it named these persons, who could therefore feel that they had been defamed. Had the court case been about defamation there might have been a grain of sense to it – but it wasn’t!
Here is Dr Hughes, concerning the absurdity of the case – which has truly trashed the norms of British justice:
“Hall has been found guilty of harassing two people whom he had never met and never tried to meet, with whom he had never exchanged a word, and with him having no idea that he was engaging in harassment.”
He explained:
“To be blunt, this was more of a show trial in which the defendant’s guilt was determined in advance, and the true purpose of the trial was to intimidate dissidents into keeping their mouths shut about Manchester and other alleged “hoaxed” attacks.”
The alleged victim Martin Hibbert does indeed have an emotionally powerful case by virtue of being evidently in a wheelchair – allegedly, since the Manchester event.
Mr Hall is guilty of having rung a doorbell – belonging to the ex- of Mr Hibbert, then he walked away after receiving no answer – five years before the court case! That is not the sort of thing for which you’d expect to be prosecuted for harassment. Everyone knows what ‘harassment’ means, it’s not an obscure legal concept. I find that a lot of people believe that Hall planted a ‘hidden camera’ in the garden of that house. That was a lie put out by Hibbert on a TV program. Hall didn’t to anything outside of normal, proper journalistic ethics.
What happened that night?
A year before the event, a fabricated terror event took place, in many ways similar to that at the Ariana Grande concert, complete with crisis actors, fake blood and a fake suicide bomber. Mockup ‘dead’ people were lying around:
Figure: Two Manchester fake-terror events, 2016 (source: The Guardian) and 2017 (photo by Chris Parker, minutes after the event).
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Here is how newspapers described it the 2016 event:
800 volunteers [were] recruited to play the dead and wounded. Victims smeared in fake blood were seen running for their lives during the mock-up., while scores more were forced to play dead.’ (The Telegraph, 10.5.16)
A mock terrorist event has been carried out at one of the UK’s busiest shopping centres… As part of the drill a fake suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a packed food court at the chopping centre. The volunteers … screamed out as if they were in pain as the training exercise unfolded. (The Guardian, 10.5.16)
This authentic-looking drama was probably a preparation for the more ‘real’ mock-terror event a year later. One could compare these two with the 2012 Sandy Hook mock-terror event in the USA, where Alex Jones correctly stated that no-one had died there, for which in 2022 he was fined more than a billion dollars, plus the loss of his web-platform.[3]
The difference between the Manchester event in 2016 and the other, a year later, was very simple: the first had citizens being told, don’t worry, it’s just a drill, while the second hit the headlines as being real. It created awful fear, as thousands of concert-goers were stampeding out after hearing the bang.
The 2017 story had a mockup of shrapnel in a bomb. There was an obvious problem here with the ‘City Room’ as the foyer is called having a glass ceiling, windows and glass doors clearly undamaged after the event. A fragile merchandise stall in the foyer, with posters and a wooden frame, also remained undamaged in the aftermath. But, the official Saunders Inquiry concluded otherwise. For that we turn to the sage judgement by Iain Davis:
What explains the shrapnel damage on the walls adjacent to the merchandise stall, which was subsequently entered into evidence at the Saunders Inquiry, when that damage was not visible within the first five minutes after the blast?
(alluding to the official multi-volume Saunders Inquiry of 2022). He wondered,
Why is there no observable shrapnel damage to any of the lighting inside the City Room shortly after the blast?
That’s easy to answer: those planning the event could not get permission to damage the lighting.
As is normally the way with fake-terror events, the CCTV after the alleged blast could not be shown, on the grounds that it would be too shocking. ‘Saunders issued a directive at the inquiry declaring the City Room CCTV video to be too graphic to be viewed either at the Inquiry or at any other time’ (Davis p172). Why, how considerate of them. The Hon. Sir John Saunders just lied:
I have seen the terrible footage from the CCTV and body-worn video cameras of the scene of devastation in the city room.’
O no you haven’t. The people of Manchester should sit up in indignation over this fake-terror baloney being given to them. Quoting Iain Davis once more:
Not a single Arena witness has posted any video or image showing anything plausibly corroborating a shrapnel-laden bomb blast in the City room on any social media platform or anywhere else online. (Davis p.176)
Returning to the two Hibberts, father and daughter, the Saunders Inquiry averred: “On CCTV, they can be seen walking into the City Room, from the Arena bowl, at 22:30” (Volume 2, 17.54 p.12). If that is so, that would settle the matter – everything written here would be invalid. So why, if they are clearly and evidently visible, can they not release this footage? It cannot be released because it does not exist. That Saunders Inquiry has lied brazenly to us the public! There is witness testimony of guards preventing any concert-goers from exiting at the end of the concert, through doors going into that City room, immediately before the bang was heard.
Here is a close-up of one of the crisis actors, from the above Parker photo, checking his mobile phone. They did not even bother to put ‘blood’ around him!
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Saunders should release the CCTV instead of just talking about it, as Hall requested at his trial, which sounds eminently reasonable. Also, we the public have not been shown any photographs of post-mortem evidence that would enable identification of alleged victims.
The Barr footage, filming for just under a minute, shows crisis actor Ruth Morel with ‘blood’ painted on her jeans. Here are four images of her as she walks across the City room. She allegedly had a bolt go right though her leg. That’s what she told the Queen when in the Manchester hospital. Bear in mind that the Barr footage was not meant to be taken, so she wasn’t expecting to be filmed.
At his trial – in the Royal Courts of Justice, the highest court in the land – I heard Richard Hall request, that if post-blast CCTV is deemed too frightful for us the public to see, could not the government merely release CCTV up to the moment of blast? It cannot do that of course, because that would reveal how the event was being staged: we’d probably see Salman Abedie the ‘terrorist’ entering the foyer, dumping his pyrotechnic device in a corner and then scuttling off.
Clearly, the recent High Court judgement represents a strangulation of British journalism. If you are wondering what really happened to those 22 families who allegedly lost loved ones, the short answer is, that it would be illegal to investigate them, because that, from now on, constitutes harassment! A longer answer would be, that you should study the four-hundred page book published by Hall, giving detailed results of his inquiry into the 22 families that allegedly lost loved ones: were they real families and – the hardest question to answer – did anyone really die?
The photos of the city room after the bang: the Parker and Ball images show a lot of old men lying on the floor. Here is the widely-published image of the allegedly dead. Note how they are mainly young people and mainly female, in order to pull at your heart-strings.
To quote David Hughes: ‘Virtually every legacy media article on the Manchester Arena incident begins with, or includes, this image or similar. The emotive power of this image is almost impossible to overstate. 15 of the 22 are young people; some are children; 17 of the 22 are female. Six were schoolgirls:’ No attempt is made to match up these 22 allegedly-dead (note by the way the ‘22’ in the bottom-left corner appears as a kind of joke) with the elderly male crisis-actors lying on the floor.
Check the 22s
The number 22 thrums through every aspect of this story.
On 22 May, 2017
22 people were killed
at 22.31 hours
by a 22 year old ‘terrorist’
Detonated at end of Ariana Grande’s 22nd and last song.
Martin Hibbert was struck by 22 pieces of shrapnel.
He had the number 22 tattoed on his back.
A young nurse at the Manchester hospital could not cope with the effects of all the wounded and committed suicide, she was 22 years old
After being treated in hospital, Hibbert returned to his home town Bolton on 22nd August
On 22 October 2019, the Home Secretary announced that the inquests (into the 22 dead) would become an independent inquiry.
The ‘terrorist’ being dead could not be charged, so instead his brother Hashem Abedi was tried, who too was 22 years old.
He was charged on 22 counts.
A month after the event, Greater Manchester police reported that ‘all 22 suspects have now been released without charge.’
Hibbert gave testimony to Saunders enquiry on 22 July 2021.
On 22 December 2022, Hibbert sends off a letter to RD Hall re court case.
Hall stood trial on 22 July 2024.
On 22.10 24 a Judgement was released, by Judge Steyn at Royal Courts of Justice
The verdict in November awarded Hibbert £22½ thousand pounds
Whatever that number is doing there, it does well relate to other great state-fabricated, Euro-terror events of this 21st century:
Norway (by Anders Breivic) – 22.7.11
Woolwich (alleged Lee Rigby death) 22.5.13
Brussels Airport 22.3.16
Munich 22.7.16
Westminster Bridge 22.3.17[4]
Manchester Arena 22.5.17
Only one of these featured real deaths (I have argued), namely the first, while the others were Islamic mock-terror, i.e. they were staged, theatrical events[5]. Note also the pattern of months, with 7, 5 and 3. You may not believe in numerology, but they do!
Supposing you were from the BBC and therefore viewed all six of these as real terror events: the recurrence of ‘22’ would probably indicate to you that Islamic terrorists had a penchant for using that number. However, the number 22 has no especial significance in Islam whereas, for a certain other ethnic group it is their master-number, being the number of letters in its alphabet as well as the number of pathways in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
All these ‘coincidences’ indicate that a specific number pertains both to the state’s response to the event as well as the event itself – demonstrating that it is a state-sponsored event. Would a ‘terrorist’ be able to get the number 22 tattoed onto Martin Hibbert’s back, or get him to state that he had been impacted by 22 pieces of shrapnel?
There is one further ‘22’ that is possibly the most significant. One September 1st, 2019 Hall set off in his car to visit 19 people who claimed to have witnessed the event in the North of England, Eve’s Mother (Ms Gilbard) being one of them. Not until the 21st July 2019, when the police visited the road that Ms Gilbard lived in, did she get to hear about RDH’s visit. There is a period of 22 months between these two dates! Quoting David Hughes,
‘It is, therefore, hard to see how Hall’s visit to Eve’s home could be construed as oppressive, given that Eve and her mother did not know it had happened for 22 months. How could they have felt “oppressed” by an event they did not know had occurred?’
They only knew about it because the police told them!
In the big Euro-terror spectaculars of this 21st century, the ‘terrorist’ is invariably known to the authorities beforehand. That iron rule admits of no exceptions! In this case, it was Salman Abedi, whose father in Libya had been involved in an unsuccessful MI-6 plot to blow up colonel Ghaddafi.[6] Another iron rule with no exceptions, is that the ‘terrorist’ has to leave his ID at the scene. In this case Abedi’s torso was allegedly found fifty yards away in Victoria Station (Uh-huh), with his bank card next to him. Really, one has to laugh (The ‘City Room’ connects the main Arena with the railway station).
Google Images show pictures of Hibbert’s back with a couple of scars, but these are older than the 2017 Manchester event. One of these is a vertical incision about six inches down his spine, indicating an earlier surgical operation for his chronic back trouble. The BBC has its emotionally-impactful story of Hibbert in a wheelchair supposedly due to a life-changing experience at the Manchester concert – enabling the Mail could to label Hall as ‘Britain’s cruellest troll.’
The hospital to which Hibbert was allegedly taken after the blast, to remove the shrapnel etc has refused all requests for medical records – even when Hall applied to the court to request them, as a vital part of his High Court case.
Martin Hibbert’s book ‘Top of the World’ and Iain Davies ‘the Manchester Attack both emerged synchronously in 2024. They are antitheses, giving two astonishingly different accounts of the same event. One has received widespread media coverage and adulation while the other is ignored. One has a powerful emotional impact while the other is investigative and journalistic.
Hibbert, interviewed by Jon Snow the Channel 4 commentator, explained that a piece of shrapnel from the explosion had gone right into his neck and severed the carotid artery – pointing to the right side of his neck. Miraculously enough it didn’t go through his neck which would have killed him, but halted in the middle enabling him to swallow it. Once in his stomach it could be removed! While lying on the floor of the ‘City Room’ in the Manchester Arena for fifty minutes unable to move with blood pumping out from his neck and a pool of blood spread out all around him, he beheld his nearly-dead daughter lying next to him – her skull smashed open by a piece of shrapnel so that he could see her brain! How distressing, to see your daughter’s brains lying on the floor next to you![7]
He survived owing to divine providence, or so his book explained. Of the pieces of shrapnel he wrote: ‘Blasted through the air at speed they become deadly weapons. They left golf-ball sized holes in concrete walls and metal doors. So you can only imagine what they did to human flesh.’ (P.53). Then, ‘the bolt that tore through my neck at high speed should have exited on the other side of my neck – virtually decapitating me … it was a freak million to one chance’ that ‘I’d gulped at the precise moment when the bolt was traveling though my neck. In that split second, I’d swallowed the shrapnel.’ (p65)
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one would have to have a heart of stone to hear such a tale without laughing. Clearly, Hibbert would have died from such bleeding; nor was any no pool of blood visible in any photos of the City Room floor in the immediate aftermath. Hibbert and his daughter do not show up in any of the videos taken at the concert that evening.
Hibbert has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds for the distress caused by Hall. I believe that public accounts by Hall of the event had not mentioned Hibbert, prior to 2023 when Hibbert launched his ‘harassment’ lawsuit. Problems remain with Hibbert’s story, that (1) there was no shrapnel and (2) he surely wasn’t there.
Hibbert’s book has a vivid chapter about his urge to commit suicide by driving a fast car off the road, possibly while going to pick up his daughter, just prior to the event. ‘The bridge became like a siren, luring me towards it. As I approached it, I’d start sweating and a compulsive urge to sharply yank the steering wheel to the right and plough straight into it rose up within me’ (P.40). In February he informed his brother that he would do it. Could he have actually done something like that which smashed Eve’s temple and wrecked his already-damaged back? After whatever happened (or, nearly happened on his account), he described how he required therapy for PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder: that is not a treatment for clinical depression.
At the end of the court-case, the judge Ms Steyn concluded:
Of those who survived the attack, Martin Hibbert was closest to it. He suffered 22 shrapnel wounds, and his life was only saved by emergency surgery. As a consequence of the Attack, he is paralysed from the waist down, wheelchair-bound and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder ‘
None of those claims are true, or can be shown to be true. By his own testimony Hibbert was receiving treatment for PTSD in the months before the incident.
I didn’t notice a lot of emphasis upon evidence in this court case, e.g. hospital records – rather they merely seemed to accept Hibbert’s claim, not allowing Hall to contest it. The judge could for example have asked Hibbert to lift his shirt up, and thereby show the Court that he has no scars on his back from the Manchester event. Providentially he has the number 22 tattoed on his back and will that do instead?
Throughout this case there was a severe disconnect between what media reported and the immediate, physical evidence. Thus the Guardian reported (July 6, 2017): “When the device was detonated, it was so powerful it caused a crater in the arena’s concrete floor and a 23 sq metre (250 sq ft) glass skylight shattered.” Can we have some evidence for that please? Plainly there was no damage to the floor just as the glass skylight remained undamaged – as were the big glass doors: not a scratch to be seen.
Not that such evidence would have been relevant to the charge of harassment, one hastens to add. By tortuous logic the court was averring that calling all the crisis actors involved, “crisis actors”, was to defame them – which possibly it did – but, not necessarily: they were presumably told they were playing this game for some greater good, perhaps building ‘resilience’ as it is called, to anticipate a terror event that would come in the future – then, when the whole thing hit the news desks and headlines as if it were a real event, they would recall they had signed non-disclosure agreements and had better keep quiet – or else. They had already taken the ‘Queen’s shilling’. But, describing this cannot constitute harassment, in any shape of form. But, hey, who cares, so long as the name of Britain’s top paranormal journalist is smeared and he has to pay over four hundred thousand pounds – so far[8]: Were he to pay that, surely a queue of named crisis actors will be lining up to claim that they have also been harassed by him, and can they each have twenty-two thousand pounds?
It was a mockery of British justice. In the long run surely the topic of state-fabricated terror will become a part of political science university courses, which students would much appreciate. When that happens, Iain Davis’ book will surely become a fundamental textbook as a proper, intellectual analysis of the whole topic, showing how this mis-trial came to pass. One can also recommend the formidable and in fact definitive sequence of articles by Dr David Hughes about the case:
Part 1 The Law vs. The Truth: Getting to the Bottom of the Richard D. Hall Case
Part 2 The forensic Evidence
Part 3 The Summary Judgment
Part 4 – Harassment How?
Part 5 – An Abuse of Media Freedom?
Part 6 – Truth vs. Authority
Part 7 – Witness Reliability, Anxiety and Distress
Part 8 – Implications for the Independent Media
Part 9 – The Emergency Response
Part 10 – National Security and Counter-terrorism
Part 11 the Operatives
Part 12 Operation Manteline
Part 13 The Enquiry
Part 14 – Locating the Fallen
Part 15 – Injuries
Part 16 Blood
These do in every aspect appear as being sound and reliable. All their details seem to be correct! One presumes that he must have downloaded the relevant videos from Hall’s ‘Richplanet.net,’ now removed (as directed by the Court’s verdict). He put many references to the official Saunders Enquiry, online, then found out that it had all been deleted![9]
For example, Part 9 describes how the four emergency response units – British Transport Police, Greater Manchester Police, North West Ambulance service and North West Fire Service – were each blocked from turning up after the event. The fire service did not arrive for over two hours after the event, even though the nearest fire station was only seven minutes away. Hall interviewed an indignant fireman as regards how they had been treated:
I’m a firefighter from Birmingham and today they have released a document saying we were to blame for the poor response time of two hours to arrive on the scene. This is just mental. We were physically stopped from entering the risk area. I have colleagues that can prove we went against protocol. Why? Because it was a staged event and we were not included in the narrative. I have a video of a senior officer that specifically uses the language that we refer to when organising training exercises….The crews were informed within 2 minutes of the ‘bomb’ that they were not going to be deployed. This in itself is unheard-of …’. (Hall, p.24)
A terror bomb goes off in a crowded arena and the first thing you do is – stop the firemen from tuning up!
The chronic back trouble of Martin Hibbert
Concerning the back trouble of Martin Hibbert, here is a statement he posted on a physiotherapy website back in May, 2014:
I have suffered with lower back pain for over 15 years, seen several so called “specialists” and been referred to numerous recommended individuals. Jim was recommended to me by a client and I first booked in with Jim back in March. Because of the years of back pain and tension in my back, Jim had to apply a lot of pressure and I won’t lie it was painful. But that night and the days later I felt like I had a new back and I had the best nights sleep ever! I have now had 3 x 1 hour sessions and the backpain has more or less gone and I no longer wake up with the pain, which allows me to start the day with a smile on my face. I have since recommended Jim to friends and clients and suggest anyone with sports injuries and/or aches and pains to see Jim.[10]
Evidently, he has suffered from long term back pain, possibly from a herniated disc in the lower ‘thoracic’ region of the back: ‘Is it the case that Hibbert does have problems walking, but they are due to his long-term spinal issues and not from injuries sustained in a bomb blast?’ Hall wondered.
Web-Comments
Web-comments are the only place where the views of ordinary people get to be expressed. Here are three examples, taken from the David Hughes’ page:
It was so obviously a staged event. There would have been absolute carnage and a blood bath of strewn body parts plastered everywhere, not bodies lying neatly in a convenient zone (all facing away from the cameras). The whole thing looks clearly stage-managed and fake. Bad crisis actors on low pay? The lady with high heels walking along after a severe shrapnel leg wound is ridiculously unbelievable! She’d be in AGONY and unable to walk! What we’re ‘programmed’ to believe is pathetically manipulated and streamlined by mainstream media.
What’s incredible is how dumbed-down (by design) the whole of society has become. There’s no rigorous visceral critical thinking and authentic pursuit of the truth by the lame ‘authorities’ or allied institutions. Except for Hall, Davis, yourself and other lone voices there’s nothing. The digital age has facilitated this malaise – there’s a gaping disconnect. We’re all fobbed off into passivity by the sedate state-controlled narrative.
The Manchester event seems to have been just one of multiple staged events throughout history which have been white-washed. “They” know that some people always speak out and see the truth but They know that They can marginalise them, ignore them, censor them into oblivion. The Orwellian Monorail Machine grinds on with its false narratives. “They” don’t care! The System of Lies looks after itself. It’s a well-oiled Machine and an old script. Nigel Cochrane
“It feels to me as if all the hours and hours of sincere investigation which Dr.David Hughes and Iain Davis have given to this case, may prove to be the turning point in overturning a wicked injustice against their fellow truth seeker, Richard D. Hall. After reading through the huge weight of evidence amassed to show us exactly how such a monumental confidence trick was accomplished, I am so grateful for these two fearless and uncompromising writers – a desperately needed antidote to the trial’s depravity.” – Theresa Bacon
“Same thing happened to Alex Jones, who was not allowed by the “judge” to cross-examine the so-called witnesses who were military stooges moved into Sandy Hook six months before the false flag. Evidence shows the Sandy Hook, Connecticut school was shut down two years earlier due to mould, and the shooting never happened. Several books on the event prove it. He was forced to pay one billion and apologize to the fake parents, who just coincidentally appeared at Obama’s little soiree at the White House later on laughing gleefully in front of the presser, before assuming faces of sorrow over the loss of their never-having-existed dead children. Obama in the background having a good old time grinning at the foolery. I recall Michel Chossudovsky saying right after 9/11 that “all the institutions have been criminalized”. So it happens now on a regular basis if you tell the truth about the lies of the state and their highly-paid stooges and liars.” – Gordon Groves
“The Manchester Arena bombing was a terrible wound inflicted on the psyche of a nation. The loss of life felt immense. The sense of injustice seemed unbearable. Emotions overflowed, threatening to overwhelm us. To question what we were told about the bombing was unthinkable.
Yet one investigative journalist did dare raise questions. Richard D. Hall examined every scrap of evidence. He diligently pored over every single image, every forensic detail, every eyewitness account, every official report, every news story. When he looked the state in the eye, the state blinked.
Ever since his book, Manchester: The Night of the Bang, came out, Hall has been hounded, character-assassinated, labelled a conspiracy theorist, and prosecuted for doing what investigative journalists are supposed to do: boldly confronting and querying the centres of power.
Contrary to what the state concluded, the terrorist attack that this book revisits was not a suicide bombing. It did not kill 22 people and injure many more. Rather, it was a hoax and, as such, a psychological attack on us all.
Earlier NK articles here and here and here and here Here for BBC.
https://odysee.com/@swprs:3/manchester-night-of-the-bang:f
me and RDH, at 12 minutes https://www.richplanet.net/richp_guest.php?ref=242&part=2&person=3 ‘How fake has terror become?’ (parts 2 and 3)
John Barr footage https://archive.org/details/jbf_20240229 the ‘City room’, filmed minutes after the bang.
[1] For further comments on the trial see iaindavis on substack
[2] More exactly, £235k court costs plus £55k damages to the two Hibberts, in November 2024.
[3] See the Jim Fetzer book, Nobody died at Sandy Hook 2016; it has NB a chapter by this writer.
[4] For details on these events see my False Flags over Europe, 2018.
[5] NK, False Flags over Europe, 2020, Prologue.
[6] His father Ramadan Abedi: https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/manchester-salman-abedi-mi6/ 26.5.17. For the Ghaddafi plot story see David Shayler’s book Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers 2015 (he and Annie Machon foiled the plot).
[7] M. Hibbert, Top of the World, 2024, p.54.
[8] That includes the £130k so far for court expenses, on top of the £235k + £55k => £420k
[9] Hughes tweeted: I think the Manchester Arena Inquiry YouTube channel may just have been deleted [February, 2025]. If so, there is now no way of watching back all the 1,300 hours of evidence given, which contravenes the Public Inquiries Act 2005 and the responsibility of the Chairman to make sure that evidence is publicly available.
[10] Hall p.54, quoting from physiotherapy website, Jim Mason Sports Massage Therapist.
