Jury convicts Thomas Mair of murdering UK lawmaker Jo Cox

FILE - This is a Friday, June 17, 2016, file photo of an image and floral tributes for Jo Cox, in Parliament Square, outside the House of Parliament in London, after the 41-year-old British Member of Parliament was fatally injured in northern England. A jury Wednesday Nov. 23, 2016 found Thomas Mair with white supremacist views guilty of murdering Labour lawmaker Jo Cox a week before Britain's EU membership referendum. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) FILE - This is a Friday, June 17, 2016, file photo of an image and floral tributes for Jo Cox, in Parliament Square, outside the House of Parliament in London, after the 41-year-old British Member of Parliament was fatally injured in northern England. A jury Wednesday Nov. 23, 2016 found Thomas Mair with white supremacist views guilty of murdering Labour lawmaker Jo Cox a week before Britain's EU membership referendum. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

By Associated Press November 23, 2016 2 min read

LONDON (AP) – A white supremacist who shot and stabbed a pro-European U.K. lawmaker while shouting “Britain first” was convicted of murder by a jury on Wednesday.

A judge said Thomas Mair would serve life without parole for killing Jo Cox. 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.

The murder, a week before Britain’s referendum on European Union membership, shocked the country.

Jurors at London’s Central Criminal Court deliberated for less than two hours before finding 53-year-old Mair guilty of firing three shots at Cox with a sawn-off .22 rifle and stabbing her 15 times.

The defendant did not visibly react as he was convicted of murdering Cox and wounding 77-year-old Bernard Kenny, a passer-by who came to the lawmaker’s assistance. Mair was also found guilty of having a gun and a dagger.