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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 day after Cox died, 17 June 2016, her husband set up a GoFundMe page named "Jo Cox's Fund" in aid of three charities which he described as "closest to her heart": the Royal Voluntary Service, Hope not Hate, and the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence group. £700,000 had been raised by 19 June 2016, [77] [78] with the amount exceeding £1 ...
Jo Cox, 41, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, was attacked as she prepared to hold a meeting with constituents. British lawmaker shot dead, EU referendum campaigns suspended Skip to main ...
From 1882 to 1990, six MPs were assassinated by Irish nationalists. The murder of Jo Cox on 16 June 2016 was committed by a white supremacist; Cox was both the first female and the first Labour MP to be assassinated. The latest incident, the murder of Sir David Amess on 15 October 2021, was committed by an Islamic terrorist.
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Investigators searched for a motive Friday behind the killing of a British lawmaker whose death stunned the nation.
Mair, 52, is alleged to have stabbed and shot the 41-year-old Cox on the street after she met with constituents in Birstall on Thursday. Jo Cox murder suspect gives name as 'Death to traitors ...
Batley's Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death outside her constituency surgery in Birstall in June 2016. [17] [18] The politically-motivated murder, carried out by a local man in the name of white supremacy, was the first assassination of a sitting British MP since 1990.