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Posted on 11/21/2007 3:45:53 AM PST by UKrepublican
Wife tells of last cuddle with husband 'kicked to death by yobs'
The widow of a man attacked outside his home by yobs has told how they were having a cuddle in their bedroom before he went out to face the gang barefoot and in pyjamas.
Helen Newlove, 44, said she was watching Midsomer Murders in bed when husband Garry came upstairs with a drink for her.
"He gave me a hug and told me he loved me and that he was looking forward to our holiday. We had a cuddle."
Mrs Newlove, a legal PA, said their 13-year-old daughter Amy had come in and jokingly told them: "Get a room."
Then, she said, "I heard a smashing noise and someone kicking a door. It sounded like broken glass. I could shouting and laughing and thought, here we go again, it's a Friday night."
A jury at Chester Crown Court heard that Amy then told her mother that yobs had been kicking Mrs Newlove's car and also damaging a digger which belonged to a neighbour.
Victim: Garry Newlove Mrs Newlove said: "Garry looked up and I said, 'Can you check my car and Charlie's digger?' He ran out in his bare feet, he was wearing pyjamas." She said that her 18-year-old daughter Zoe's boyfriend Tom Sherrington was at the family's home in Warrington, Cheshire. She asked him to follow her husband and make sure he was all right.
"I heard Garry say, 'Do you think you are great?' I heard someone swearing, saying, 'Yeah, yeah, what are you going to do?'
"Then Amy came running in screaming, 'Phone an ambulance, Dad has been hurt'.
"My daughter was screaming. I told Amy not to be hysterical and it would be fine. Amy nearly fainted."
After calling the ambulance, said Mrs Newlove, she ran out to her husband, a 47-year-old sales manager. "I saw Garry on the floor. He had injuries to his head; it was swollen. He looked lifeless. Tom was knelt down. Zoe came towards me and grabbed hold of me.
"Seeing Garry like that not moving I went hysterical and started screaming. I lost the plot completely. A neighbour told me not to look at Garry, but everything would be okay.
"I thought, 'This can't be happening'. Zoe was trying to take control. She came up to me and said, 'Mum, he's going to be all right'.
"Tom was on the phone. I think he was saying, 'He has no pulse'. I went hysterical again and thought, 'Oh my God, this can't be happening. Please don't let this happen.' There was lots of commotion and screaming in the background. I felt sick."
The court has heard that seven or eight drunken teenagers kicked Mr Newlove's head "like a football" after he challenged them.
Mrs Newlove described seeing her husband in a coma in hospital afterwards, his face covered in blood. In a statement read out to court, she said: "Garry was a mess. His head was covered in blood and was very swollen. He had a neck collar.
"I told him I loved him and wanted him to come home. It was horrible, he had a trainer print mark in the centre of his forehead, it was a Vshape in blood. I could not see if it was a toe or a heel but it quite clearly was a foot mark from a trainer or a boot." Mr Newlove died two days later from bleeding to the brain owing to a torn artery in his neck, caused by the repeated kicking. He never regained consciousness.
One youth Adam Swellings, 18, denies murder but has admitted a lesser charge of manslaughter.
The other four, two aged 17, one aged 16 and his 15 year-old brother - none of whom can be named for legal reasons - all deny murder.
The case continues.
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What a tragic story. Just a normal family, by all accounts a very decent one destroyed by these evil little *****.
Every one of them should be executed.
But what will happen? They’ll be out within a decade free to move on with their lives.
It breaks my heart, it really does. There is no justice, not even a decent attempt at it.
What is a “yob”? Is it a British version of a mob?
I take it that “Yobs” are bigger than “snipes,” right?
Between the lawless yobs I read about and the kowtowing to Muslims, the UK doesn’t sound like a place I want to visit anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yob
‘Yobbo (also Yob), slang term for an uncouth blue collar individual or thug’
“But what will happen? They’ll be out within a decade free to move on with their lives.”
They will carry all this in their consciences, even if it requires dreams to bring the memory before their eyes, and at the end they will stand before their Judge and give an account before being sentenced.
backwards boy...yob
Yob is Boy spelled backwards. We’d call them hoodlums here in America.
they hang out drinking and try to look cool for the lrigs.
gang member,hood, etc..
It’s more than likely their consciences are not the same as ours.
They might regret what they did - but it would be for the wrong reasons or to a degree where they still don’t comprehend how wicked what they did was or the damage it has done to a family.
First - what is a yob????
Second - this is a good reason to own a gun. Drunk and disorderly youth, damaging your property, and your life - there is only one fitting end for punks like that - and I don’t car how young they are.
But this is from the UK - so the youths will probably get off with a slap on the wrist (considering one has already given a plea to “manslaughter”...
This is what happens when the government takes away an individual’s right to be able to defend himself.
Years ago, some teenagers were tearing up my parent’s mailbox. My Dad stepped out of the house and fired off one round (in the air) from his shotgun. I swear the car that these kids were riding in was doing 30 MPH when the kids caught up with it.
I don’t think so.
Manslaughter is an accident due to recklessness.
This was wanton murder by evil people.
I don’t know what a “YOB” is, but I’m sure my 12ga could kill it. Oh, this is the UK, never mind, people there are suppose to lay down when threatened.
I’m not complete sure, but I think “yob” is a British term for Youthful Obnoxious Bully.
The Ludovico Technique may be appropriate here
Condolences to Helen, Zoe, Amy, Tom and the remainder of Garry’s family and friends.
Same here, and I feel terrible about it- Like a friend has died. I read their papers online out of nostalgia for some of the best times in my life, and come away depressed and hopeless.
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