The man arrested over the murder of MP Jo Cox has been described as a "loner" who obsessed over personal hygiene and washed himself with Brillo pads.
Thomas Mair, 52, was arrested after the mother-of-two was shot and stabbed outside a constituency surgery near Leeds.
Neighbours described him as a loner who had a history of mental illness. He worked as a volunteer gardener in the area he had lived in for 40 years.
He had lived alone in the same house since his grandmother, who raised him, died in 1996.
His half-brother, Duane St Louis, told The Sun: “He was always cleaning himself. He cleaned himself with Brillo pads.
He added: “He’s never expressed any views about Britain, or politics or racist tendencies. I’m mixed race and I’m his half-brother, we got on well.
“He never married. The only time I remember him having a girlfriend was as a young man, but a man stole her off him. He said that put him off for life.”
His brother, Scott Mair, said he had a history of mental illness for which he had received help.
Neighbour David Pickles added: “He is just a bit of a loner, but I would not say that he was unfriendly.
“I know he spent a lot of time in the library and like to go on the computers there. I don’t know what he was looking up.
Witnesses to the sickening incident have said they heard Mrs Cox's attacker shout 'Britain first', before stabbing and shooting the MP for Batley and Spen.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre in America have also claimed that Mair purchased materials from the National Alliance, a neo-nazi organisation in the US between 1999 and 2003.
Britain First have denied any links with Mair or the killing.
