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		</div><p>An alleged white supremacist accused of murdering MP Jo Cox had a gold Third Reich Eagle ornament with a swastika on it on his bookcase, a court has heard.</p>
<p>Thomas Mair, 53, in on trial for allegedly shooting and stabbing the 41-year-old Remain campaigner a week before the EU referendum vote.</p>
<p>A search of his home in Lowood Lane, in Birstall, West Yorkshire, uncovered books on German military history, the Old Bailey was told. He also had a publication on the German Holocaust and SS Race Theory And Late Selection Guidelines, jurors heard.</p>
<p>Another was entitled March Of The Titans: A History Of The White Race, and a double- page press cutting on Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik was also allegedly recovered from his housing association home.</p>
<p>A printout of a Wikipedia entry on the White Patriot Party was found in his drawers along with information on the BBB &#8211; White Liberation Movement &#8211; a notorious South African neo- Nazi organization.</p>
<p>The material featured in a series of photographs shown to jurors by prosecutor Richard Whittam QC.</p>
<p>Mair had allegedly collected a dossier on Mrs Cox in his home, including stories about her in newspapers, jurors heard. There was also a printout of her biography from her website, jurors were told. Police found rune stones in a bag, one of which appeared to have a symbol of the BBB movement on it.</p>
<p>Mrs Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen was set upon outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds, in front of her staff and shocked passers-by.</p>
<p>Mair allegedly shouted &#8220;Britain First&#8221; as he repeatedly shot and stabbed the mother-of-two.<br />
On the afternoon of June 16, Mair&#8217;s neighbour Katie Green saw him as she got off a bus in the market place.</p>
<p>Ms Green had lived near Mair&#8217;s home for the past 13 years, she said. She told jurors he was <i>&#8220;very quiet, very shy but did not see any visitors&#8221;.</i></p>
<p>Mair always kept his garden very tidy and spent a lot of time in it, she said. Giving evidence via video-link from Leeds Crown Court, Ms Green described a brief encounter with Mair when she travelled to Birstall market place by bus.</p>
<p>When she got off the bus, she saw the defendant looking as if he was queuing to board, the court heard.</p>
<p>She said: <i>&#8220;He was at the front of the queue looking like he was just waiting to get on to the bus.</p>
<p>&#8220;He had a pair of dark trousers and a dark green khaki jacket and dark cream baseball cap.</p>
<p>&#8220;He always carried bags. He had three or four bags. I saw him walk off.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Within minutes, Ms Green said she heard about a gun incident and decided to abandon her shopping trip.</p>
<p>She said: <i>&#8220;I was going to the market place for fruit and veg.</p>
<p>&#8220;I saw the commotion and I heard somebody say there is somebody with a gun so I got my little Gil straight into a taxi and came straight home.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ThomasMairJoCoxAccusedCourtDrawing_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ThomasMairJoCoxAccusedCourtDrawing_large.jpg" alt="thomasmairjocoxaccusedcourtdrawing_large" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-99861" /></a></p>
<p>Mair denies Mrs Cox&#8217;s murder, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon &#8211; a dagger. He also pleads not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Bernard Carter-Kenny on the same date.</p>
<p>The trial, which is due to last up to three weeks, continues.</p>
<p>The court heard that in the months before he allegedly killed Mrs Cox, Mair repeatedly visited neo-Nazi, right-wing and white supremacy websites. Mr Whittam said Mair used computers at public libraries in Birstall and Batley to access the material.</p>
<p>Police seized eight computers and examined Mair&#8217;s internet searches.</p>
<p>The court heard that on April 6 he looked at the American neo-Nazi news and commentary site Daily Stormer, before searching for Dylann Roof, who was suspected of killing nine black Americans in Charleston in 2015.</p>
<p>Police found that he made similar searches at the two libraries over the following weeks, on one day reading about a German Nazi party leader, on another looking at a site on historical extreme right-wing organizations. Others included searches relating to the Ku Klux Klan, and to people who were murdered because of their civil rights work.</p>
<p>Jurors were also shown a YouTube video that Mair watched on June 7 of an American man shooting a 0.22 sawn-off shotgun in a field, filmed from a head-cam. This was the same day he searched for Mrs Cox on Wikipedia and Google Images. Mair also searched websites about matricide, Mr Whittam said.</p>
<p>The case was adjourned until Tuesday.</p>
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