Jean Leadbeater and Gordon Leadbeater, Jo Cox’s mother and father, have welcomed around 80 cyclists who cycled from Yorkshire to London in the murdered MP’s memory.
On 16 June, 2016, Jo Cox, a Labour Party MP for Batley and Spen, died after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, West Yorkshire by Thomas Alexander Mair, a 53-year-old unemployed gardener born in Scotland who held radical far right views.
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