The Making Of A Bedsit Nazi: Who Was The Man Who Killed Jo Cox? • Discoverology

The Making Of A Bedsit Nazi: Who Was The Man Who Killed Jo Cox?

Thomas Mair shot and stabbed the British MP as she made her way to a constituency surgery at the local library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June 2016, a week before the EU referendum. He told the two police officers who arrested him that he was a “political activist”.

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