Besides her career in politics, Jo Cox described herself on her personal website as an avid runner, cyclist and mountain climber. "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. Cox was killed Thursday by a gun- and knife wielding attacker in her small-town constituency, one week before what would have been her 42nd birthday. A day earlier she had campaigned on the River Thames in London with her husband and two young children. When she finished her studies at Cambridge in 1995, she was first in her family to graduate from a university.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 16, 2016 20:37 UTC