Baroness Helen Newlove is the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales. Baroness Newlove’s husband Garry was murdered by a group of youths after having gone outside to confront them vandalising his wife’s car. The murder was the culmination of numerous incidents of ASB by youth gangs which had started several years earlier.
Baroness Newlove said the government must act to give victims of persistent anti-social behaviour the “help and support they deserve”. “I know only too well victims of persistent ASB can suffer high levels of harm. The cumulative impact of the behaviour can devastate victims’ lives, affecting their sleep, work, relationships, health and feelings of safety in their own home”.
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