The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Murdered MP’s family grateful for all support
Thanks: Jo Cox killed two years ago
The family of murdered MP Jo Cox has thanked the public for its support as they prepare to privately mourn the second anniversary of her death.
The 41-year-old Labour politician mother-of-two was killed by neo-Nazi Thomas Mair in her Batley and Spen constituency on June 16 2016.
Last year the family organised the Great Get Together – a network of community events in recognition of Mrs Cox’s passion for combating loneliness.
The national celebration has been moved back a weekend, to what would have been Mrs Cox’s 44th birthday, to allow the family to mark the anniversary of her death separately. In a statement, the family said: “Friday will be two years since the murder of our beloved Jo.
“She is in our thoughts every day, and the passage of time does not diminish our feelings of loss or our sadness at no longer having her wonderful, joyful and endlessly positive presence in our lives.
“We will be spending the day together as a family and remembering all the goodness she brought to our world and not the way she was taken from it.
“Jo had a profound effect not just on those of us who loved her dearly, but on everybody she met.
“And we have been deeply touched by all the thousands of messages from people who were never fortunate enough to meet her but who have been inspired by her example.
“We will never fully understand or come to terms with the senseless manner of her death.
“But we remain eternally grateful to all those who have supported us in trying to make sure the response to her murder is a rejection of the hatred and extremism that led to it.
“The love and support shown by so many is a real comfort to us all. But more importantly it is a tribute to the one person we would give anything to have with us this weekend. To Jo.”
“We will be spending the day together as a family”