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 Jo Cox MP     (politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | Helen Joanne Leadbeater 22 June 1974 Batley, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||
| Died | 2016-06-16 (Age 41) Birstall, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Children | 2 | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Brendan Cox | |||||||||||
| Member of | WEF/Young Global Leaders/2009 | |||||||||||
| Victim of | Murder | |||||||||||
| Party | Labour | |||||||||||
| Subpage | •Jo Cox/Murder | |||||||||||
An MP murdered without obvious motive in June 2016.
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Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox[1] (22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Batley and Spen having retained the seat for Labour in the 2015 General Election.[2]
Murder
On 16 June 2016, Jo Cox MP was shot and stabbed multiple times outside the public library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a surgery with her constituents. She was left in a critical condition and died from her injuries approximately an hour later.[3] A "52-year-old man", identified by The Daily Telegraph and The Independent as Thomas "Tommy" Mair, was arrested.[4]
References
- ↑ "No. 61230". The London Gazette. 18 May 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto"). London Gazette uses unsupported parameters (help)
- ↑ "Batley & Spen Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2015.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack". BBC News. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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