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Murder of Jo Cox
2016 murder of a UK member of parliament / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox, a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire. In November 2016, 53-year-old Thomas Alexander Mair was found guilty of her murder and other offences connected to the killing in an act of terrorism.[1] The judge concluded that Mair wanted to advance white supremacy and exclusive nationalism most associated with Nazism and its modern forms. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.[2][3]
Murder of Jo Cox | |
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![]() Cox was killed outside Birstall library | |
Location | Market Street, Birstall, West Yorkshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°43′53″N 1°39′40″W |
Date | 16 June 2016; 8 years ago (2016-06-16) c. 12:53 pm (BST) |
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Deaths | Jo Cox |
Injured | Bernard Carter-Kenny |
Motive | Far-right extremism |
Convicted | Thomas Alexander Mair |
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 murder of a politician in the United Kingdom during an attack since county councillor Andrew Pennington was killed in 2000.