Killing of British MP was "an act of terror", says husband

The widower of murdered British lawmaker Jo Cox said her killing was an act of terror as he paid tribute to his late wife today alongside hundreds of mourners at an emotional memorial in London's Trafalgar Square.

Cox died after she was shot and stabbed in the street in her constituency in northern England last week - an attack that shocked the country and prompted an outpouring of sympathy around the globe for the lifelong humanitarian campaigner.
"Jo's killing was political. It was an act of terror designed to advance an agenda of hatred towards others," Brendan Cox said in a tearful speech to a large crowd packed into the London landmark.
"What a beautiful irony it is that an act designed to advance hatred has instead generated such an outpouring of love."

The vigil marking what would have been her 42nd birthday, and also attended by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, fell silent at 1518 GMT in a mark of respect also observed at other events across the country and around the world including in Beirut, Brussels, Melbourne, Nairobi, New York and Washington.
Cox's death has abruptly changed the tone of the final days of caustic campaign around a referendum on Britain's European...