The man arrested on Thursday on
suspicion of murdering Labour MP Jo Cox is alleged to have links
with a white supremacist movement, media reported Friday.
The Independent reported that Tommy Mair is named in the
database of an on-line publication of the far-right Springbok
Club, which has defended the former white supremacist apartheid
regime in South Africa.
Mair, 52, was arrested on Thursday evening in connection
with the shooting and stabbing murder of 41-year-old Cox, a
mother of two, in her Yorkshire constituency.
He is reported to have shouted 'Britain first' twice
during the attack, which came exactly a week before the country
is due to vote in the Brexit referendum on leaving the EU on
June 23.
Cox, who was campaigning in favour of remaining in
Europe, had received several threatening messages over the last
three months, the Times reported Friday.
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