Who was Jo Cox?

Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as a member of parliament for Batley
and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour
Party. She was assassinated 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 reason behind her assassination:
Guardian writers suggested that the targeted Cox a passionate defender of the European
Union and immigration because he saw her as one of the collaborators a traitor to white
people.