Thomas Mair (murderer)
| Murder of Jo Cox | |
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| Location | Market Street, 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 (Jo Cox) |
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Non-fatal injuries
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1 (Bernard Carter-Kenny) |
| Perpetrator | Thomas Mair |
| Motive | Cox's support for the European Union and immigration |
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. In September, a 52-year-old local man named Thomas Alexander Mair was found guilty of her murder and other offences connected to the killing, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
Mair had singled out Cox, a "passionate defender" of the European Union and immigration, because he viewed her as "one of 'the collaborators' [and] a traitor" to white people. The incident was the first killing of a sitting British MP since the death of Conservative MP Ian Gow, who was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1990, and the first death of a politician during an attack since county councillor Andrew Pennington was killed in 2000.
Jo Cox was elected to represent the parliamentary constituency Batley and Spen at the 2015 general election, having spent several years working for the international humanitarian charity Oxfam. She was married with two young children.
On 16 June 2016 Cox was on her way to meet constituents at a routine surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire when Thomas Mair shot her with a sawn-off rifle, and stabbed her twice, outside a library in Market Street. She died at the scene.
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