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Who killed Joe Cox
The main thing about the first political murder in the UK for 26 years
In the UK, on Thursday, June 16, a member of the parliament Joe Cox was killed. She was called the "rising star of the Labor Party", she was 41 years old. Kox killer-52-year-old Thomas Mair, during the attack, he shouted “Britain primarily”; In the past, this man received psychiatric care. Medusa tells the main thing about the first political murder in the UK for 26 years.
Who is Joe Cox?
Helen Joanne Cox was born in the city of Batley in Western Yorkshire, her mother worked as a school secretary, and her father - in factories for the production of toothpaste and hair sprays in Lids. Cox studied well at school and won the right to get education in Cambridge. There she studied the public policy course until 1995. The girl became the first in the family to receive a higher education. It was in Cambridge that she became interested in politics and was imbued with liberal ideas. After studying, COKS began work in charitable organizations in developing countries and made a career in the OXFAM International Human Rights Council, having reached the post of director of the Political Office. Cox was a convinced feminist: in the Labor Party, she headed an organization that helped women begin a political career.
Both she and her husband Brendan were connected with the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Labor Gordon Brown. Joe Cox advised the wife of Brown Sarah on women's and children's health care, and Brendan Cox helped Brown with educational projects. In London, a couple instead of an apartment lived on a barge moored off the shore of Thamza near the Tower Bridge. Brendan and Joe had two young children.
In the spring of 2015, Joe Kox got into the UK parliament and in a little more than a year deserved a reputation as a refugee fighter. She was ready to infinity to convince opponents of her rightness and come to an agreement with the deputies colleagues, writes The Guardian. Cox headed the parliamentary conflict committee in Syria and advocated the cessation of hostilities, and also led an active campaign in support of refugees. She was a fierce opponent of Britain’s exit from the European Union and one of the main characters in the campaign against Brexit .
About three months ago, Joe Cox began to receive threats on social networks. The police knew about this, and it was assumed that she would be provided with enhanced guard, but due to bureaucratic delays this was not done. In March 2016, a man was arrested - in the framework of the investigation of these threats, but there is no information about whether he was connected with the murderer of the parliamentarian. There is also no data on the connection of threats and murder of COX.
Gordon Brown called the death of Cox a tragedy, and the leader of the Labor Labor Jeremy Corbin said : "We lost a beautiful woman, we lost the beautiful member of the parliament, but we will continue her work." After the death of his wife, Brendan Cox urged people to fight "with the hatred that killed her."
Who is Thomas Mair?
On suspicion of the attack on Cox, a 52-year-old resident of Birmstall (West Yorkshire) Thomas Mair was detained. In local media, he is called Tommy. According to his brother Maire - Steve, Thomas never spoke about politics, did not express nationalist ideas and did not talk about the future of Great Britain. Mair lived in his house for about 30 years, and, according to the neighbors, seemed like a quiet, closed man, to whom no one had ever come. Mair loved gardening and often helped neighbors with caring for plants.
It is known that Mair suffered from a mental disorder. In 2010, he told the local newspaper how he was helped to return to an active life in the center of adult patients with mental disorders, including thanks to volunteer work for the benefit of society. Steve Mair confirmed that his brother received psychiatric care, but recently he was all right.
The name of Thomas Maira was mentioned in 2006 in the newsletter of the Ultra Powder of the organization of SpringBok Club, which supports both the UK exit from the European Union and the restoration of the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is also known that since 1999 he bought books by National Vanguard Books, associated with the American neo -Nazi organization National Alliance. Among other things, there were books with instructions for the manufacture of homemade weapons and explosive devices.
During the attack on Cox, Mair, according to preliminary data, shouted Britain First (“Britain First of all”). The same name is the ultra -right British party, actively supporting Brexit. There is no reliable information about the Mair’s connection with Britain First; After the attack, the party published a statement in which Cox condemned the murder.
Thomas Mair was armed with a knife and a gun. In the UK, attacks with firearms are extremely rare, several dozens of such cases occur per year. So far, it is reliably unknown where he got the weapon; According to various versions, it could be an antique gun or weapon made independently. The crime that he allegedly committed was the first political murder in the UK since 1990, when the fighters of the Irish Republican Army undermined the car of the parliamentarian-conservative Ian GOU.