Police had been looking into the mum-of-two’s security after she was subjected to abusive messages, according to The Times.
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British politician Jo Cox was shot dead in a street attack on Thursday afternoon by a gunman who was a “dedicated supporter” of a neo-Nazi group based in the United States. She was known for her work on Syrian refugees and was a passionate human rights campaigner.
The 41-year-old mother-of-two was shot, stabbed and kicked in the street following a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
Mr Corbyn said: “Jo was brutally murdered here 24 hours ago in this town – a town she loved, a town she grew up in, serving a community she loved”.
Romford MP Andrew Rosindell, said: “All my thoughts and prayers are with Jo Cox and her family”.
The party’s leader, Paul Golding, said that the phrase “could have been a slogan rather than a reference to our party”.
In a recent development, it came across that in March this year, Jo Cox was recieving death threats.She had contacted police after the “malicious communications” and they had arrested a man in connection with the investigation.Police said that the man they had arrested at that time was not Thomas Mair.
The Prime Minister urged people to “value and see as precious the democracy we have on these islands”, adding that Britain’s peace, stability and economic wellbeing were “all underpinned by tolerance”.
British Prime Minister David Cameron called for tolerance in public debate on Friday near the spot where MP Jo Cox was gunned down, as it was announced that Parliament would be recalled Monday to pay tribute. He also attacked another old man in the area and was arrested by the police.
“For now all our thoughts are with Jo’s husband Brendan and their two young children”. It is not yet known whether the hate mail’s author is the same man who killed her.
Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party, wrote on Twitter: “The whole of the Labour family, and indeed the whole country, is in shock and grief at the horrific murder of Jo Cox”.
“Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives”, he said.
Before Mrs Cox’s death was announced, Bury St Edmunds MP Jo Churchill tweeted: “My thoughts and prayers go out to Jo Cox and her family during this most hard time”. She had a big heart and people are going to be very, very sad at what has happened.
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Campaigning for Britain’s European Union referendum scheduled for next week has been suspended for a second day as the nation reels from the murder of a popular pro-Europe MP. Jo Cox was clearly a wonderful person just trying to do her best and her passing is a great loss to us all.
