Staff who were with Jo Cox when she was shot and stabbed by Thomas Mair say they’re happy she wasn’t alone

TWO of Jo Cox’s staff who were with her when she was murdered say it helps them cope to know she was not alone.

Fazila Aswat and Sandra Major were getting out of a car with Jo when she was shot and stabbed by Thomas Mair.

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Office manager Fazila said: “She wasn’t on her own. She was with two people that very much loved and cared for her.”

Sandra, the MP’s senior case worker, said Jo had tried to protect them as they arrived for surgery in Birstall, West Yorks.

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She said of the 41-year-old mother of two: “Jo wasn’t just our boss, she was our friend.”

Fazila added: “On a personal level, you’re coping with the loss of a friend.

"On a professional level, you’re mourning the loss of a woman that, in no doubt in anybody’s mind, was going to be a minister.”

Mair, 53, was handed a whole-life term at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.

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