Overview
- The Office of the Victims' Commissioner announced her death after a short illness and requested privacy for her family.
- She served as Victims' Commissioner from 2013 to 2019 and returned in October 2023 for an interim term due to run to December 2025.
- Her advocacy, rooted in the 2007 murder of her husband Garry in Warrington, helped strengthen the Victims' Code and informed the Victims and Prisoners Act.
- A Conservative life peer and Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords, she also led major surveys of victim experiences and founded Newlove Warrington to improve community safety.
- Justice Secretary David Lammy and peers paid tribute to her impact, and the commissioner’s office said it will continue its work until Claire Waxman takes over on 1 January 2026.