Killer shouted ‘Britain First’ as he murdered Labour MP Jo Cox

Birstall

  A ‘remain’ supporting Labour MP was brutally murdered by one of her constituents shouting ‘Britain First’ a week before the Brexit vote, a court heard. Thomas Mair, 53, stabbed and shot Jo Cox, 41, in a ‘cowardly’ attack carried out for a political or ideological cause, jurors heard. The MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire had been due to hold a constituency surgery at a library in Market Street, Birstall, west Yorks, on 16 June. Prosecutor Richard…

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