Police charge suspect in slaying of UK MP Jo Cox

West Yorkshire police said on its website that Thomas Mair, 52, had been charged with the murder of the 41-year-old mother of two.

Police at the scene in Birstall where British MP Jo Cox was shot and killed.

The center released copies of receipts and a 2013 subscription to the National Alliance’s publication National Vanguard as well as receipts from 1999 showing purchases for the neo-Nazi book “Ich Kampfe”, the “Improvised Munitions Handbook” and other books.

One witness, Clarke Rothwell who runs a cafe near where Cox was attacked, told the Press Association that he heard the attacker shouting “put Britain first”.

Cox was known for her strong pro-immigrant views, her drive to help refugees, and her campaigning to keep Britain inside the European Union.

“Jo Cox died doing her public duty at the heart of our democracy, listening to and representing the people she was elected to serve”, he said. In charity work and politics, she took up causes across the globe, from some of the world’s most risky countries to her home constituency in Yorkshire.

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish national Party, said the murder had “hit all of us as politicians very hard”, the BBC reported. But it was a curious focus at a time when officials said they still had no motive for the slaying – and long before reports said the mentally ill man taken into custody nearby may have had ties to a United States neo-Nazi group.

The online article said he was “one of the earliest subscribers and supporters of “SA Patriot” and was hoping to trace his whereabouts.

Cox was a former aid worker who had championed the cause of Syrian refugees and campaigned for Britain to stay in the European Union when it votes in a referendum on Thursday.

Ms Shah said he was still struggling to come to terms with her friend’s death.

The sombre-faced British prime minister, Labour leader and Commons Speaker John Bercow bowed their heads as they laid bouquets at the foot of Birstall’s Joseph Priestley memorial, adding to the impromptu shrine of flowers and messages which has grown up over the past day.

David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn have described the killing as an “attack on democracy”. “We had nothing to do with it”, he said.

Cameron said Britain is “rightly shocked” at the killing and praised her values of service, community, and tolerance.

Corbyn said Parliament would be recalled from a break on Monday so that lawmakers could pay tribute to Cox. The day before her killing, Cox joined her husband and two young children in campaigning for the pro-EU cause on the River Thames, where the family had lived in a houseboat since her election a year ago. Others stood talking quietly in small groups about the brutality of the killing, its exceptionally public nature – and whether anyone could have done more to stop the attacker.

More mourners left flowers outside Parliament, and some linked the heated atmosphere of the referendum to the attack.

Mrs Peters said: “He came to live with his grandparents, with his brother Scott, I don’t know what the family problem was”.

Violence against British politicians has been rare since Northern Ireland’s peace deal almost two decades ago.

“I don’t think it will change people’s minds about how they vote, I think it might change the tone”, said Stephen Hix, a professor of political science at The London School of Economics.

She was the first British MP to be murdered since Ian Gow was killed by Irish Republican Army paramilitaries in a vehicle bomb in 1990.

He said, however, that police were working with the Palace of Westminster and the Home Office to review security arrangements for members of parliament.

Since 2000, two lawmakers have been attacked and wounded while meeting with constituents. But he said lawmakers would continue to meet with constituents.