THE widow of a Warrington man killed by drunken thugs has called for the death penalty to be brought back.
Helen Newlove, 45, spoke after three teenagers were given life sentences for the murder of her husband Garry.
"In my opinion they should pay the ultimate price. We need to think about the death penalty because it's the only way these kids are going to wake up to the pain they are causing," she told a national newspaper.
"If we had the electric chair like in America, I'd watch them fry without the slightest feeling of sympathy. It's an eye for an eye in my book."
Mr Newlove, 47, a salesman with a plastics company, left his home on August 10 last year to remonstrate with a group of teenage thugs who had damaged his wife's car.
Mr Newlove, who had previously beaten stomach cancer, was kicked "like a football" in front of his terrified wife and daughters, Chester Crown Court was told.
On Monday, the gang's ringleader Adam Swellings, 19, of Crewe, was ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years behind bars.
Swellings had been released from custody for an assault just hours before the attack on Mr Newlove. He was freed on bail on condition he stayed away from Warrington but he never left the town. Instead he met up with accomplices Stephen Sorton and Jordan Cunliffe and began a drink and drugs binge.
Sorton, 17, of Warrington, with whom he had committed a previous violent attack, was locked up for a minimum of 15 years. Cunliffe, 16, formerly of Warrington, was sentenced to a minimum of 12 years.
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I do agree. I'd like to see a referendum on this but these loony liberals in charge care more about the scum's human rights than the rights of innocent victims like Gary Newlove.
Mrs Newlove, you got the right mindset. There must be no forgiveness and understanding for these scumbags. Only fools that had not been on the receiving end of a gun, knife, bat or boot will think that is a good idea. Only of frying them will bring victims closure.
The problem is, the death penalty would (probably) never be reintroduced in this country as this is part of EU and therefore be subjected to EU's nonsense about human rights. HOWEVER, I do have a suggestion, lock them up for 12-17 years in the same condition as battery chickens. Give them 3 sqr metres of floor space each, AND all the food they can eat.
The last bit of my earlier comment had been cut off so let me rephrase it.
Lets see how they like it living in their own waste for 12-17 years.
Here here. If not hanging then at least public floggings!
These 3 little hooligans will be getting worse than a death sentence as we speak. They will have woke up this morning, knowing that they will never go on a holiday with their mates, never have a girlfriend in their 20s and early 30s, never have a job that pays more than buttons, never have the respect of anyone including their families ever again, never be able to walk on a beach until they are middle aged, never go to a friends wedding as they will all be married with 12 year old kids by the time these animals come out.
I work with a guy who has first hand knowledge of the penal system, and these three will not be enjoying it one bit.
Best of all, when we have moved on to the next story of horror in todays society, these 3 will still be inside, still in turmoil for the next decade+. And i for one hope every day they spend in there is progressively worse than the day before.
I came in by tram today - im 32. Looking round at the 20 somethings in their suits and the girls in their business suits, looking pretty and enjoying life - these three will never have the chance to socialise with these decent folk.
I thank the judge for his example he has set and the police for taking them off the street as soon as they did.
I understand the pain caused by his death, but how is introducing the death penalty going to solve anything. It's intended as a deterent, it's too late for that and since they attacked him in the first place, i doubt they would have stopped to think.
We dont have politicians with the guts to bring back these laws.And we have to swallow the human rights act that protects these monsters.ITS NOW TIME TO BRING BACK THE NOOSE AND OTHER DETERENTS TO STOP INNOCENT PEOPLE BEING MURDERED IN THEIR HOMES ETC.
We dont have politicians with the guts to bring back these laws.And we have to swallow the human rights act that protects these monsters.ITS NOW TIME TO BRING BACK THE NOOSE AND OTHER DETERENTS TO STOP INNOCENT PEOPLE BEING MURDERED IN THEIR HOMES ETC.
American SUPERMAX prisons are the way ahead here in the UK. Lock them up for 24 hours a day in a cell with no windows and bare comforts. Food passed through a slot in the door. No TV, just a basic book service. This country has for far too long, pampered idiots like this inside, so they don't fear a prison sentance.
alvinlwh,
The EU and "Human Rights" are two seperate bodies. The court of human rights predates the EU (Common Market). Membership of the "EU" dictated that we have no death penalty - other than for High Treason, Arson in HM Dockyards, Piracy and voting for the Congestion Charge (mybe wrong on the last one as that is not Military)
Totally agree with Mrs Newlove and the posts so far on here.
These useless scum bags are no value to anyone and should have no rights whatsoever
Executing them is a 100% guaranteed way of making sure that some other innocent person will not be harmed by them and also it saves the costs to the taxpayer of feeding, housing and incacerating the scum for the next few years
These idiotic liberals who bleat on about the human rights of vermin frankly turn my stomach
Yup. The death penalty has sure solved all the problems of violence in America, hasn't it...
Mark, I thought mutiny was also still a hanging offence. Agree with you about the congestion charge, though.
It makes my blood boil to think that these scumbags will still be younger than their victim, when they're released from prison.
To Gareth Ellis, the idea of capital punishment won't bring back Gary Newlove but maybe, just maybe it will make scum think twice about killing another inocent victim. That's what his widow wants to achieve and I think she's entitled to it
The remaining few anamolies where the death penalty could have been imposed have now been removed by EU legislation. Personally i dont believe the death penalty has any deterent value, and it has its problems, but right now it's a very tempting thought and i have every sympathy for the Newlove family.
HOPE THEY ALL ROT IN HELL!!! SCUM BAGS!!
There is absolutely no death penalty in England for anything at all. The last offences which could theoretically have attracted the death penalty had it formally revoked in the 90s, ISTR. Check out the Wikipedia page on Capital Punishment; I believe there is a section on the UK.
As for these kids, lock 'em up for 20 years or more. Sadly, they'll probably be out in less than ten.
Maybe some of Mrs Newlove's burlier male friends could arrange a "reception committee" for their release from prison. I'd go and watch.
I hope the death penalty never comes back.
However I do agree 100% with her sentiments that they deserve it.
"Maybe some of Mrs Newlove's burlier male friends could arrange a "reception committee" for their release from prison. I'd go and watch."
I'm sure most Brits would be off to sunnier climates if they could..nevermind sticking around chancing survival in Britain....wouldn't like to place bets.
We need something to deter people from commiting crimes so lets get tough, bring back full term sentences and life must mean life!
The death sentence is a great deterent, how many murdertes currently re offend? How many would have re offended had they had the death penalty ZERO!
So long as it makes scum think twice about murdering innocent victims then it works for me!!
Stujl - Good points, well made.
It could possibly even help wider society if the toe-rags and wasters that are put before the courts for their 'first offence' (well, the first they are detained for...), to sample a little taste of proper prison life - with none of the 'comforts' that some inmates appear to enjoy.
Prisons need (initially) to be places of punishment and despair, then we'll see about rehabilitation.
My thoughts, of course, are with Mr Newlove's family, I hope they can find some solace in the work they intend to take up on his behalf.
I agree with Gareth Evans, the death penalty is no deterrent. What is more, if it was reintroduced juries would be reluctant to convict knowing that death was the sentence so justice wouldn't be done anyway. Anyone on a jury with a genuine abhorrence of the death sentence would rather take a chance and vote not guilty. Kind of defeats the object. However, I really feel for the Newlove family and they thoroughly deserve their minimum sentences.
Mark Spencer,
Isn't it time UK pull out of the EU then? Now the laws are dictated by Brussels not London. And our council tax are paid to French farmers.
When you kill someone, you rob their family not just of a loved one, but of their humanity. You harden their hearts with hate.You take away their capacity for civilised dispassion. You condemnthem to bloodlust.
It's a cruel horrible thing but indulging that hate will NEVER help The damage is done. In the end a civilised society must live with a hard truth. He who seeks revenge digs two graves. I am sorry for your loss Mrs Newlove