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Batley MP dies after being shot and stabbed in Birstall street attack

Tributes are being paid to West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox, who has died after she was shot on the street in Birstall. The 41-year-old Labour MP was outside the library in the village, where she holds regular advice surgeries.

  • Police described the killing as a "targeted attack"
  • Tommy Mair, arrested in connection with Jo Cox's death, continues to be questioned
  • It was revealed police investigated two previous unrelated incidents in which Jo Cox received "a malicious communication of a sexual nature" at her Westminster office
  • David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn united to pay tribute to the MP in Birstall on Friday
  • Mr Corbyn described the killing as an "attack on democracy"
  • President Obama spoke by phone to Jo Cox's husband
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Inquest hears Jo Cox died from multiple stab and gunshot wounds

An inquest into the death of Labour MP Jo Cox has heard the 41-year-old mother of two died from multiple stab and gunshot wounds.

Jo Cox died at the scene Credit: PA

Mrs Cox was attacked outside her constituency surgery in Birstall just over a week ago.

Detective Superintendent Nick Wallen, of West Yorkshire Police, told a brief hearing at Bradford Coroners Court it was immediately clear to paramedics and police that the Batley and Spen MP was "very seriously injured indeed".

Mr Wallen said medics worked to save her life but Mrs Cox was pronounced dead by a doctor in an ambulance outside Birstall library on June 16th. She did not go to hospital.

The detective confirmed that a post-mortem examination had shown a preliminary cause of death as "multiple stab and gunshot wounds". He said lawyers for Thomas Mair, the man charged with murdering Mrs Cox did not require a second post-mortem examination.

Coroner Martin Fleming said this meant he could release Mrs Cox's body "so the family can get on with the grieving process". The six-minute inquest hearing was adjourned until the conclusion of criminal proceedings.

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