{"id":3229,"date":"2016-11-23T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2016-11-23T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:49:41","slug":"far-right-fanatic-thomas-mair-guilty-murdering-mp-jo-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/23\/far-right-fanatic-thomas-mair-guilty-murdering-mp-jo-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Far Right Fanatic Thomas Mair Guilty of Murdering MP Jo Cox – Given Life Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: Thomas Mair has been given a whole-life\u00a0sentence after being\u00a0convicted\u00a0of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas\u00a0Mair\u00a0was told he would never be released after killing the mother\u00a0of\u00a0two as she arrived at Birstall library in West Yorkshire for a surgery on June 16, a week before the EU referendum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A far right extremist has been convicted of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox after the jury in his trial took just an hour and a half to reach a verdict.<\/p>\n

Thomas Mair, 53, shot and stabbed the mother-of-two as she arrived at Birstall library in West Yorkshire for a surgery on June 16, a week before the EU referendum.<\/p>\n

Mair, who shouted “Britain first”, had a stash of neo-Nazi material at his home and had collected a dossier on his 41-year-old Remain campaigning MP, the Old Bailey heard.<\/p>\n

As the verdicts were read out, Jo Cox’s parents Jean and Gordon Leadbeater clasped their hands together and nodded.<\/p>\n

Jo’s husband, Brendan Cox told the Old Bailey he was not there for “retribution” and felt “nothing but pity for” Thomas Mair.<\/p>\n

He also described the far right killer as “cowardice personified”.<\/p>\n

In a statement he said: “The killing was in my view a political act and an act of terrorism. An act driven by hatred which has instead promoted an outpouring of love.”<\/p>\n

Mair was also convicted of stabbing 77-year-old retired miner, Bernard Kenny, who tried to save the MP.<\/p>\n

In a statement Mr Kenny described Mair’s actions as a “pure act of evil”.<\/p>\n

He said he would do the same thing again as it was “the right thing to do”, even though his actions were not enough to save Mrs Cox.<\/p>\n

After the verdicts were read out, Mair, who had refused to enter a plea and did not put forward a defence, said he wished to address the court, but the judge refused to give him permission.<\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the prosecution case, Mair’s lawyer Simon Russell Flint, QC, called no evidence on behalf of the defendant, of Lowood Lane, Birstall.<\/p>\n

In his closing speech, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told jurors: “At 13.48 on the 16th of June in Market Street outside the public library in Birstall, the democratically-elected MP for Batley and Spen, Jo Cox, was murdered as she carried out her duties on behalf of her electorate.<\/p>\n

“The sheer brutality of her murder and the utter cowardice of her murderer bring the two extremities of humanity face to face.”<\/p>\n

Mrs Cox was a hard-working MP and mother of two young children.<\/p>\n

Mr Whittam said her attack “brought out the best of the people who were with her” – the two members of staff and Birstall residents who came to her aid.<\/p>\n

They came from all walks of life, he said, including a taxi driver and a 77-year-old man who was wounded as he tried to intervene.<\/p>\n

Mr Whittam had suggested in his opening address that Mair’s assault was “cowardly”.<\/p>\n

He told jurors: “Now you have heard the evidence you may have no doubt that it was.”<\/p>\n

Source: Telegraph UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Thomas Mair has been given a whole-life\u00a0sentence after being\u00a0convicted\u00a0of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox. Thomas\u00a0Mair\u00a0was told he would never be released after killing the mother\u00a0of\u00a0two as she arrived at Birstall library in West Yorkshire […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[1981,1825,1430,51,1748],"class_list":{"0":"post-3229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-far-right-extremist","11":"tag-jo-cox","12":"tag-mp","13":"tag-murder","14":"tag-thomas-mair","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}