Killing of British lawmaker was ‘an act of terror’, says husband

The killing of
British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed in the street last
week, was an act of terror, her husband said on Wednesday.

Cox, a
supporter of Britain’s European Union membership who had also campaigned
for Britain to do more to help refugees, was killed in her northern
English electoral district by a man heard shouting “Britain first”.

“Jo’s
killing was political. It was an act of terror designed to advance an
agenda of hatred towards others,” Brendan Cox told a memorial in
London’s Trafalgar Square to mark what would have been her 42nd
birthday.