Helen Newlove, Baroness Newlove
The Baroness Newlove | |
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Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales | |
Interim | |
| Assumed office 16 October 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| 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 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.