Jo Cox online vigil receives more than 22,000 tribute messages

Credit: Avaaz.org

More than 22,000 heartfelt tribute messages have been left for murdered MP Jo Cox on an online vigil page set up in her memory.

Messages from around the world have been left on the 'Jo Cox: We Will Fight for Love page' in the hours since she was killed yesterday with members hailing Ms Cox the "embodiment of kindness" and mourning her death as a "tragic loss".

Photos have been left amongst floral tributes that have also been laid in Birstall, West Yorkshire Credit: Danny Lawson/PA

One person, writing under the name Susan, paid tribute to Ms Cox's work helping others, saying she "was the woman I aspired to be".

Another woman, called Tricia, remembered Ms Cox as a "beautiful compassionate woman who stood up for humanity".

Another message reads simply "Hate shall not prevail!"

The vigil, which was set up by the community campaigning site Avaaz, states that it wants to honour Ms Cox with a pledge "to honour your beautiful life of service to humanity, by picking up the banner of love, and carrying it to our homes, our communities, our countries and our world."

A message left on the site by organisers reads: "Your children will not grow up to know a darker world. The hate that took your life will not triumph. We will fight, with love, and for love, for the world we all want."

According to organisers some of the messages left for Ms Cox will be shown on a special wall of love to be set up at a vigil in Parliament Square on Friday night.