Eyewitnessesreported the attacker was heard to shout «Britain First» during the incident in which Mrs Cox was «shot three times» and «repeatedly stabbed with a foot - long knife».
«What Eyewitness tell me was that they were there around 9:00 am when they heard a loud sound and [saw that] somebody had fallen, [but] they can not tell me exactly what happened,» Citi News «Farida Shaibu reported from the scene.