British Lawmaker: Cox and Britain Referendum

british lawmaker: The 41-year-old Labour member of Parliament was attacked in June outside a library as she prepared to meet residents of the area she represented in northern England, according to Guelph Mercury. The murder, a week before Britain referendum on European Union membership, shocked the country. Judge Alan Wilkie sentenced Thomas Mair to life without parole for killing Jo Cox, in what prosecutors called an act of terrorism. Cox was the first British lawmaker killed in office in a quarter of a century. The defendant did not visibly react as he was convicted of murdering Cox and wounding 77-year-old Bernard Kenny, a passerby who was stabbed as he tried to stop the attack. Jurors at London Central Criminal Court deliberated for less than two hours before unanimously finding 53-year-old Mair guilty of firing three shots at Cox with a sawn-off .22 rifle and stabbing her 15 times. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.