A British Youtuber has been hit with a £40,000 libel bill for pushing ‘wholly unfounded conspiracy theories’ over the murder of a woman and her two daughters that shocked that United States.
Franklin Rzucek, the brother of murdered mother-of-two Shanann Watts, sued Devon-born Alan Vinnicombe for libel and harassment over claims he made on YouTube concerning the death of his sister and two nieces.
Mrs Watts and her daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, were murdered by her husband Chris Watts in Colorado in 2018.
Mrs Watts was also pregnant with their third child at the time. Watts was later sentenced to life
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