The Baroness Newlove | |
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![]() Official portrait, 2022 | |
Victims' Commissioner | |
Interim | |
Assumed office 16 October 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Dame Vera Baird |
In office 4 March 2013 – 31 May 2019 | |
Prime Minister | |
Preceded by | Louise Casey |
Succeeded by | Dame Vera Baird |
Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords | |
Assumed office 5 March 2018 | |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 15 July 2010 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | 28 December 1961 |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouses | |
Children | 3 |
Helen Margaret Newlove, Baroness Newlove (born 28 December 1961) is a British community reform campaigner who was appointed as Victims' Commissioner[1] and served from 2013 to 2019. She was reappointed as the interim victims' commissioner on 16 October 2023[2] and has served as a deputy speaker in the House of Lords since 5 March 2018. Helen Newlove came to prominence after her husband, Garry Newlove, was murdered by three youths in 2007.[3] After his death she set up a number of foundations that aimed to tackle the UK drinking culture as well as providing support to young people. Newlove was given a peerage in the 2010 Dissolution Honours list and sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative.[4]