Who was Jo Cox and what did the Labour MP say about Brexit?
JO Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen who was killed in broad daylight by Nazi-obsessed murderer Thomas Mair.
The murderer struck in broad daylight on June 16, 2016, a week before the EU referendum vote. Here's all about on her life and legacy...
Who was Jo Cox?
Born Helen Joanne Leadbeater, Jo Cox, 41, was a mum-of-two and popular Labour Party MP from Batley, Yorkshire.
She represented her local constituency from 2015 until her murder the following year.
Jo had previously been head of policy at the global charity Oxfam before entering politics.
The daughter of a school secretary and a factory worker, Jo became head girl at grammar school before studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge.
She lived in Brussels working for Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock after leaving uni before joining Oxfam and moving to New York.
Jo was selected to contest the Batley and Spen seat in 2015 and won the seat with 43.2 per cent — increasing the Labour majority by over 6,000 votes.
In Parliament, she was a strong campaigner on international human rights, the Syrian civil war and Gaza, and was a Remain supporter during the EU referendum.
What did the Labour MP say about Brexit?
Jo Cox was a passionate Remain campaigner in the run-up to the EU Referendum.
The day before she died she tweeted a picture of her family on a speedboat, writing: "My hubby @Mr BrendanCox & children taking part in the battle of the #Thames - because we're #StrongerIn #Remain".
She added: “I’m In – you know what sort of s*** you’re in when you’re In, but you don’t know what sort of s*** you’re going to be in when you’re Out.”
Jo also posted regular pieces in favour of EU Common Fisheries policy, and on the positives of EU citizens living in the UK.
During her maiden speech at the House of Commons, she spoke in favour of diversity, saying: "Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.
"While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.”
When was Jo murdered?
Her life was tragically cut short when she was stabbed and shot on June 16, 2016, as she made her way to a constituency meeting.
At her killer Thomas Mair's trial, Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said: “She was brutally murdered by one of her constituents. It was a cowardly attack by a man armed with a firearm and a knife.”
She suffered knife wounds to her heart, lungs, stomach and liver before being blasted three times through her hands with a sawn-off gun as she tried to protect her head.
Heroic Jo warned her two aides to stay back and told them “let him hurt me, don’t let him hurt you” as she was murdered.
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How has Jo been remembered?
The Great Get Together, a weekend of community events, was set up by widower Brendan Cox in Jo's memory in 2017.
Brendan Cox also wrote a book, "Jo Cox, More in Common", published a year after her death.
He also founded two charities - More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation - in honour of his late wife.
Mr Cox denied assaulting a woman in her 30s at Harvard University in 2015 - but admitted to "inappropriate" behaviour while working for Save the Children.
