After the young British MP Jo Cox was assassinated in 2016, police raided the house of her killer.
He lived in Cox’s West Yorkshire electorate, a region with a large and flourishing South Asian population.
Inside his home were disturbing clues about what motivated his attack. Neighbours had thought that the assassin was harmless, just a quiet, solitary middle-aged man.
But the local South Asian taxi drivers knew better…
00:00 Assassination
03:00 Hello my friend
03:43 Batley, West Yorkshire
05:40 Birstall, West Yorkshire
06:40 Inside Thomas Mair’s home
08:05 To leave or not to leave?
09:35 Aftermath
Host: Aslan Pahari
Producer: Hannah Jose
Audio Engineer: Tegan Nicholls
Video Producers: Dylan Behan, Tejas Bhat
Special thanks: Michael Osmond for archives research
Supervising Producer: Kyla Slaven
Executive Producers: Joel Werner, Eric George, Jessica Radburn
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