Neo-Nazi Thomas Mair gets whole life sentence for MP Jo Cox's murder

A white supremacist has been told he will serve the whole of his life in jail for murdering MP Jo Cox.

Thomas Mair attacked the 41-year-old mother-of-two as she arrived for her weekly surgery at Birstall Library, shooting and stabbing her after shouting "Britain first".

Mair, who had a stash of neo-Nazi material at his home in the West Yorkshire town, had pleaded his innocence but failed to offer any evidence in his defence.

The jury at the Old Bailey took just 90 minutes to find Mair guilty after a prosecutor described how, having failed in a first attempt to kill her, he came back to shoot and stab the Labour MP for Batley and Spen in front of her shocked constituents.

She was shot at three times and stabbed a total of 15 times a week before the EU referendum, in which she had been campaigning for the UK to remain.

After the verdict, 53-year-old Mair asked the judge through his lawyer if he could address the court, but was refused permission.

The judge Mr Justice Wilkie told Mair: "By your actions you have betrayed the quintessence of our country, its reliance on Parliamentary democracy.

"There is no doubt that this murder was done to advance the cause of violent white nationalism.

"It was a vicious, ruthless and determined attack. You returned to inflict further injuries on Jo when it seemed she might survive."

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