The Baroness Newlove | |
|---|---|
 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]
- ^ "Baroness Newlove Is New Victims' Commissioner". Sky News. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ "Interim Victims' Commissioner appointed". GOV.UK. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ "Newlove Killer's Appeal Refused". Sky News. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^ "Dissolution honours: John Prescott made a peer". BBC News. 27 May 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.