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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amy-Clare Martin

New victims’ champion: I came back to fix the system but it’s still letting people down

Brian Lloyd Duckett

In the wake of her husband Garry’s murder, Helen Newlove endured a gruelling 10-week trial as the drunken teenage thugs who kicked him to death were finally brought to justice.

She declared “Britain is broken” after the father-of-three, 47, was attacked in front of his daughters as he tried to confront teen vandals in 2007 – later earning herself a peerage for her campaigning and the job of victims’ commissioner, holding the office from 2013 to 2019.

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