Accused killer of UK lawmaker declines to defend himself in court

[WorldNews]

The man accused of murdering Member of Parliament Jo Cox a week before Britain's EU referendum has opted not to speak in his own defense at his trial, a London court heard on Tuesday. Thomas Mair, 53, is accused of shooting and stabbing opposition Labour MP Cox, 41, on the street in the town of Birstall, part of her electoral district in northern England. Prosecutors have told his trial that Cox's attacker had shouted something like "Keep Britain independent" and "Britain first" during the frenzied assault and that a swathe of material about Nazis and the far right were found at Mair's home in Birstall as well as information about Cox herself.

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