First pictures of Jo Cox murder suspect's sick Nazi hoard

THE man accused of murdering MP Jo Cox hoarded Nazi memorabilia at his home, a court heard yesterday.

Thomas Mair had a Third Reich golden eagle featuring a swastika on top of his bookcase.

Cops also found Nazi badges and a “Deutschland” cap, as well as a large collection of far-Right and white supremacist books and magazines.

Titles included March of the Titans: A History of the White Race and SS Race Theory and Mate Selection Guidelines.

The Old Bailey heard the search unearthed press cuttings on Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik and a dossier on Mrs Cox.

Jurors were shown printouts found at the home of Thomas Mair which contained information about the 41-year-old politician.

Mair, 53, is said to have shot and stabbed the anti-Brexit Labour MP, 41, outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorks, a week before June’s EU referendum.

The Old Bailey was told police also recovered computer printouts containing information Jo, including one statement in which she had said: "I believe the patriotic choice is to vote for 'Britain to remain inside the EU'."

Mair is alleged to have stabbed and shot the mother-of-two in the street as she made her way to a constituency surgery at Birstall library, in West Yorkshire a week before the Brexit vote.

The Labour MP for Batley and Spen suffered 15 stab wounds and three gunshot injuries in the attack on June 16, while hero pensioner Bernard Kenny, 78, was knifed once as he tried to intervene.

The Old Bailey was today shown photographs of items found inside his house after he was arrested for her murder.

PC Nicholas Russell, who was the first officer through the door of Mair's home just after 2pm on the day of Mrs Cox's murder, said he heard a colleague shout "look at this" as he searched a bedroom.

Next to a single bed was a small bookshelf on top of a chest of drawers.

"I saw on a few of the shelves the subject matter was of German military history," he said in a statement.

"In top of the bookcase was a small gold-coloured ornament of a Third Reich eagle with a swastika on it."

Prosecutor Richard Whittam QC said drawers were opened and officers found books on the "National Vanguard".

Another was entitled: "March of the Titans: A history of the white race."

Others were named "The German Home Front 1939-45" and "The Politics of the Holocaust".

Police also found images of SS officers and another document called: "SS Race Theory and Mate Selection guidelines."

The court heard Mair had lived alone in his council house in Birstall, West Yorkshire, since 1996.

A printout of a Wikipedia entry on the White Patriot Party was found in his drawers along with information on the BBB - White Liberation Movement - a notorious South African neo-Nazi organisation.

Officers found rune stones in a bag, one of which appeared to have a symbol of the BBB movement on it.

There were also various Nazi badges and a "Deutschland" cap, prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told jurors.

Police seized computers from libraries in Birstall and Batley which Mair had used to look at more far-right material and search for information on Mrs Cox and .22 rifles.

On April 6, he looked at the American neo-Nazi news site Daily Stormer before searching for Dylann Roof, who was suspected of killing nine black Americans in Charleston in 2015, the court heard.

He also allegedly searched for the Ku Klux Klan, former BNP leaders, and matricide, the court heard.

Jurors were shown a YouTube video that Mair watched on June 7 of an American man shooting a .22 sawn-off shotgun in a field, filmed from a head-cam.

This was the same day he was said to have searched for Mrs Cox on Wikipedia and Google Images.

Neighbour Katie Green, who had lived near the man she knows as 'Tommy' for 13 years told jurors: "[He was] very quiet, very shy and I didn't see any visitors."

She said Mair was a very keen gardener who spent a lot of time outside maintaining his own and other people's gardens.

Ms Green said her neighbour, who would almost always wear a baseball cap, had once cut the grass at her house.

Giving evidence by videolink from Leeds Crown Court, the mother said she had seen Mair on the morning of Mrs Cox's murder.

"He had a pair of dark trousers on, a dark khaki jacket and a cream baseball cap," she said, adding that he was carrying three or four bags.

"He always carried bags."

Jurors last week heard how the MP was executed with hollow-point bullets, which expand on impact.

A plastic bag in a holdall found next to alleged gunman Thomas Mair, 53, held 25 live .22 calibre rounds.

Twelve were lead hollow-point cartridges which are normally used by hunters to kill animals.

Firearms expert Andre Horne told Old Bailey jurors they are designed to kill with one shot.

He said: “The idea is to cause a greater wound size, which would be considered a more humane way of disposing of animals.”

Jurors were also shown a .22 calibre Weihrauch rifle found in Mair’s holdall, which had been modified to be fired one-handed.

Mair allegedly ambushed anti-Brexit Labour MP Jo, 41, in ­Birstall, West Yorks, a week before June’s EU Referendum.

She was shot three times and stabbed 15 times with a  dagger.

One bullet hole showed she placed her left hand over her face as the gun was fired.

Mrs Cox’s tights had holes in the knees suggesting she had tried to crawl away from her attacker, jurors were told.

Flowers and tributes left in Parliament Square after the death of Jo Cox

Mair is alleged to have had a political or ideological motive for murdering Mrs Cox.

He denies Mrs Cox's murder, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an indictable offence and possession of an offensive weapon - a dagger.

Mair also pleads not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Bernard Carter-Kenny on the same date.

The trial, which is due to last up to three weeks, continues.

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