Helen Newlove, Baroness Newlove

The Baroness Newlove
Official portrait, 2022
Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales
Interim
Assumed office
16 October 2023
Prime Minister
Preceded byDame Vera Baird
In office
4 March 2013  31 May 2019
Prime Minister
Preceded byLouise Casey
Succeeded byDame 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 (1961-12-28) 28 December 1961
Political partyConservative
Spouses
(m. 1986; died 2007)
    Paul Shacklady
    (m. 2012)
    Children3

    Helen Margaret Newlove, Baroness Newlove (born 28 December 1961) is a British community reform campaigner who was appointed as Victims' Commissioner and served from 2013 to 2019. She was reappointed as the interim victims' commissioner on 16 October 2023 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. 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.