The husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox last night sensationally admitted to being a sex pest β and quit two charities he set up in her name. Weeping openly, Brendan Cox apologised for the 'hurt and offence' he has caused to women, and said that he was 'deeply apologetic' for his behaviour.
In a highly emotional interview with The Mail on Sunday, he dramatically announced his immediate resignation from the Jo Cox Foundation and More In Common β the charities he launched to honour the memory of his wife.
His confession came as this newspaper uncovered shocking new details of a second sexual assault he allegedly committed. The accusation relates to his time with Save The Children in the year before his wife was killed by a far-right fanatic during the Brexit referendum campaign. Brendan Cox, the husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox pictured together , has admitted to being a sex pest and resigned from two charities he set up in her honour. The incident led to him being forced to leave the charity in Astonishingly, one month after Mr Cox left the charity, a senior female US Government official told police Mr Cox had carried out a similar alleged assault on her at Harvard University in America β as this newspaper revealed last week.
The woman was unaware of the Save The Children incident at the time. In another development, it emerged yesterday that Mr Forsyth was also the subject of a complaint by a female employee. It related to an 'inappropriate comment' he allegedly made. The complaint was investigated and said to have been resolved 'by consensus'. Insiders insist Mr Forsyth's subsequent departure from the charity had nothing to do with the complaint against him, nor the handling of the Cox scandal.
Mr Forsyth was then appointed deputy executive director of Unicef in New York, a post he still holds. But they were too big for their boots. The disclosures will fuel the current controversy over charity sex scandals and cover-ups.
