Man Accused Of Murdering MP Jo Cox Appears In Court
President Barack Obama called Cox’s husband, Brendan Cox, Friday to offer “his honest condolences on behalf of the American people to Mr. Cox and his two young children, as well as to her friends, colleagues, and constituents”, the White House said in a statement. “In her memory, we will not allow those people that spread hatred a poison to divide our society, we will strengthen our democracy and free speech”.
“She was caring, eloquent, principled and wise”.
The Jo Cox murder case is being treated as “terror-related”, a court heard today as her alleged killer was remanded in custody.
“Jo was murdered in the course of her duty serving constituents in need”.
“She fought for them, just as she fought for others at home and overseas who were victims of poverty, discrimination or injustice”.
In total silence, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was called to speak.
Nick Wallen of West Yorkshire Police said Mair was charged with murder, grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon.
At a “Leave” event at Old Billingsgate, MP and leading “Brexit” advocate Boris Johnson told attendees that Britain was “at its best when we believe in ourselves”.
A memorial fund to raise money for charities she supported has reached more than #800,000. “She was a human being, and she was flawless”.
By the end of the day, she joked, people thought Mrs Cox was the MP.
Cox lived with her husband Brendan and their two children, aged three and five, on a houseboat moored on the River Thames in London, close to the city’s iconic Tower Bridge. Jo Cox, we love you, we salute you and we shall never forget you.
Tributes left to Labour MP Jo Cox who was shot and stabbed to death in the street outside her constituency advice surgery.
“Every time we thought it had got as bad as it could have, it’s gone and got worse”, he said. This is not a factional party political point. She not only fought passionately for her constituency, but she used her position to speak up for the voiceless around the world.
“She had much more to give”.
But in a rare move, members of Parliament were recalled Monday to pay their respects in the House of Commons to the 41-year-old Labour politician, who was fatally shot and stabbed Thursday in Birstall in northern England.
The prime minister said the country was “rightly shocked” by her death, while the Labour leader described the former aid worker as “an exceptional, wonderful, very talented woman”.
Ms Leadbeater struggled to contain her emotion as she spoke of her sister’s two young children.