Murder of Jo Cox
| 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 / 53.7315°N 1.66098°W |
| Date | 16 June 2016 c. 12:53 pm (BST) |
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| 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. 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.
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.