Newlove was attacked outside his house in Station Road North in the Padgate district of Warrington, Cheshire, on the evening of 10 August 2007, having gone outside to confront a gang of youths he suspected of vandalising his wife's car.
The murder was the culmination of numerous incidents of anti-social behaviour by youth gangs in and around the Padgate area, which had lasted for several years [REF].