Lady Newlove obituary

Former legal secretary who became a passionate and articulate advocate for the victims of crimeThe otherwise “ordinary” life of Helen Newlove, Lady Newlove, who has died after a short illness aged 63, was turned into something first of all extraordinary and then remarkable by the savage, unprovoked murder of her husband outside their family home on what had been a quiet summer’s evening in 2007. It propelled the one-time legal secretary on to a public platform and into a passio