Murder of Jo Cox
| Murder of Jo Cox | |
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| Location | Birstall, West Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°43′53″N 1°39′40″W / 53.7315°N 1.66098°WCoordinates: 53°43′53″N 1°39′40″W / 53.7315°N 1.66098°W |
| Date | 16 June 2016 c. 12:53 p.m. (BST) |
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Attack type
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Shooting, stabbing |
| Weapons | Firearm, knife |
| Deaths | 1 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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1 |
| Victims |
Jo Cox (killed) Bernard Carter-Kenny (injured) |
| Perpetrator | Thomas Mair |
On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, the British Labour Party Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, shortly before she was due to hold a constituency surgery. A 52-year-old local man named Thomas Mair was arrested in connection with Cox's death. On 23 November 2016, Mair was found guilty of murder and other offences connected to the killing. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
The incident was the first killing of a sitting British MP since the death of Conservative MP Ian Gow, who was murdered in a Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist attack in 1990, and the first death of a politician during an attack since Andrew Pennington, a county councillor, was killed during 2001 defending Liberal Democrat MP Nigel Jones.
Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox (née Leadbeater; 1974–2016) was elected to represent the Batley and Spen parliamentary seat at the 2015 general election, having spent several years working for the international humanitarian charity Oxfam.
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