{"id":134893,"date":"2016-06-17T18:21:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=134893"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T12:52:31","slug":"jo-cox-killing-suspect-not-a-violent-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=134893","title":{"rendered":"Jo Cox Killing Suspect ‘Not A Violent Man’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky News — June 17, 2016<\/h1>\n
\"Tommy<\/a>

Tommy Mair. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The brother of the suspect held over the deadly attack on Labour MP Jo Cox has said Tommy Mair is “not a violent man”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neighbours have also expressed shock following the arrest of the 52-year-old near his home in Birstall, West Yorkshire, describing him as a “loner” who “kept himself to himself”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police have been searching his home not far from where the mother of two young children was stabbed and shot several times.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott Mair, 50, has told reporters his brother had a “history of mental illness, but he has had help”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told the Sun newspaper: “We are struggling to believe what has happened. My brother is not a violent man and is not that political.<\/span><\/p>\n

We don’t even know who he votes for. I am visibly shaken at this news. I am so sorry for the MP and her family.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The alleged gunman is reported to have shouted “Britain first” or “put Britain first” during the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mair’s half-brother, Duane St Louis, 41, told the Sun: “He’s never expressed any views about Britain, or politics or racist tendencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m mixed race and I’m his half-brother, we got on well.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Britain First group said in a statement it “obviously is NOT involved and would never encourage behaviour of this sort”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2010, a Thomas Mair, then aged 46, was quoted in his local paper talking about his mental health issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

After being a patient of the Mirfield-based Pathways Day Centre for adults with mental illness, he had volunteered at Oakwell Hall country park in Birstall, according to a Huddersfield Examiner report at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

He told the paper: “I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Many people who suffer from mental illness are socially isolated and disconnected from society, feelings of worthlessness are also common, mainly caused by long-term unemployment.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Pathways is described on the South West Yorkshire Partnership (SWYP) NHS Foundation Trust website as a “team that offers support to people experiencing mental health difficulties”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rob Webster, chief executive at SWYP NHS Trust, said: “Our thoughts are with Jo’s family, friends and colleagues during this tragic time.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This is an ongoing police investigation and we are unable to comment further.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Neighbours said Mair had lived at the property for more than 30 years, much of it on his own following the death of his grandmother.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Pickles said: “He’s lived there longer than me and I’ve lived here since 1975. I still can’t believe it. He’s the last guy I would have thought of.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He’s just quiet. He kept himself to himself. He lived by himself. He’s been on his own for about 20 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, said: “He was a bit of a loner. It’s a bit of a shock – he did everyone’s gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I can’t say a wrong word about him, he was so quiet. It’s come as a shock to everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The murder of Jo Cox begins to look less like a politically motivate killing and more like the act of psychologically disturbed individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-jo-coxs-murder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134899,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134893\/revisions\/134899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}