Suspect is loner with mental problems

birstall - The man who was arrested for the death of parliamentarian Jo Cox, according to British media, the 52-year-old Thomas Mair. He is described as a 'loner' who struggled in the past with mental health problems.

'He had little contact with the neighborhood,' a neighbor tells Mair told The Sun. 'He's very quiet and lived alone for twenty years. He never got visitors on the floor or something.'

According to the Telegraph, the man had in the past a subscription to an extreme right-wing South African magazine published by a pro-apartheid group.
  
    
     
      
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His brother says that Mair had mental problems in the past. 'I still can not believe what happened,' he told the newspaper. 'My brother is not violent and not involved in politics. I do not even know who he votes. He had problems, but he's helped them.'

 
  
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Mair worked as a gardener at a park nearby. In 2011 he told a local newspaper how his work helped with his mental problems. 'I can honestly say that this work has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world,' said Mair. 'Many people who have mental health problems who are socially isolated and outside the company. They feel unworthy and that is often a cause of long-term unemployment.'

'All these problems I solve volunteering. To go out and meet new people is good, but I think it is important to do physically and meaningful work.'

Local residents tell the newspaper that he was not politically active and never mind Europe or gave something like that.