LONDON ¨C A loner obsessed with Nazis and extreme right-wing ideology was sentenced on Wednesday to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering lawmaker Jo Cox in a frenzied street attack that stunned Britain a week before the European Union referendum.
Armed with a sawn-off rifle and a dagger, Thomas Mair, 53, shot Cox three times and repeatedly stabbed the 41-year-old mother of two young children in her northern English electoral district as she arrived for a meeting with local residents.
During the June 16 attack, he shouted ¡°Britain first¡± and ¡°Keep Britain independent,¡± his trial heard. When arrested he told officers he was a political activist and his only words in court were when he gave his name as ¡°death to traitors, freedom for Britain.
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