A senior Labour MP said he ‘feared the worst’ and thought of murdered parliamentary colleagues including Jo Cox as he was confronted by an angry constituent in the street, a court heard.
Former minister Liam Byrne described coming ‘under attack’ during an outdoor surgery in his constituency.
A court heard Kevin Sullivan, 52, overturned the Labour Party gazebo and ranted at Mr Byrne and his colleagues about mosques and grooming gangs during the confrontation last September.
The Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North MP said scaffolder Sullivan was ‘tense and aggressive’ at the ‘community gazebo surgery’ that Mr Byrne was hosting.
He told Walsall
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