Murder of Jo Cox

Murder of Jo Cox
Murder of Jo Cox
	Cox was killed outside Birstall library
Location	Market Street, Birstall, West Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53°43′53″N 1°39′40″W / 53.7315°N 1.66098°W
Date	16 June 2016 ; c. 12:53 pm (BST)
Attack type	Shooting; stabbing; assassination; domestic terrorism;
Deaths	Jo Cox
Injured	Bernard Carter-Kenny
Motive	Far-right extremism
Convicted	Thomas Alexander Mair

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]

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 in the United Kingdom during an attack since county councillor Andrew Pennington was killed in 2000.

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