Right-Wing Extremist Convicted of Murdering Jo Cox, a U.K. Lawmaker - News Summed Up

Right-Wing Extremist Convicted of Murdering Jo Cox, a U.K. Lawmaker


PhotoLONDON — A man with a history of extremist right-wing beliefs was convicted on Wednesday of murdering Jo Cox, a Labour Party lawmaker, one week before Britain’s referendum in June on leaving the European Union. Mr. Mair shouted “Britain First” during the attack, but in imposing the sentence, the judge, Alan Wilkie, called Mr. Mair a terrorist, not a patriot. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyJustice Wilkie said that Mr. Mair had betrayed the sacrifices of the generation of Britons who helped defeat Nazism during World War II. That said, Mr. Mair, an unemployed gardener, had a longstanding obsession with Nazi propaganda, white supremacist ideologies and the apartheid era in South Africa, according to evidence presented in court. The Southern Poverty Law Center, in Alabama, reported soon after the killing that Mr. Mair was a “dedicated supporter” of the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi organization in the United States.


Source: New York Times November 23, 2016 13:38 UTC



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