'You don't say that to a 12-year-old who's just watched her father being kicked to death. You just don't say that'

It started with beer bottles being thrown into his garden at his Cheshire home. But when Garry Newlove, who was a sales manager originally from Salford, confronted the gang of drunken youths who were defacing his wife’s car, it changed his family's lives forever.

Garry ran outside barefoot from his home on night in August 2007 to challenge three teenagers, but never returned. Mr Newlove's head was kicked "like a football" in front of his daughters Zoe, 18, and Amy, 12 and died two days later from a lethal head injury.

It followed endless abuse, violence and aggression aimed at the family's property in Padgate. His wife Helen, who is now the victim's commissioner for the UK, has told the Mirror that she wants to change the law to help those affected by antisocial behaviour (ASB).

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Baroness Newlove is encouraging them to reach out to her and tell her their stories in a new survey launched by her office this week. From the moment she was thrown into the criminal justice system, she discovered it was driven by statistics and terminology but not empathy.

“Mr daughters were traumatised, hadn't slept and there was a person there who the police had advised,” Baroness Newlove says, looking back to that tragic day. “The first words when she met my daughter were: ‘Well of course, everybody's innocent until proven guilty.’

"Now, yes, you can't discuss the case, but you don't say that to a 12-year-old child who's just watched her father being kicked to death, choking on his own blood, trying to pull his tongue out, trying to do CPR. You do not say that to a person.”

The police then put Garry on a map, as Man A, with his murderers around him as B, C, D as they