About this page. This page summarises a Domestic Homicide Review published in the Home Office DHR Library. The full report is available at the source link below. Victim and perpetrator names are not included in extracted summaries on this page.
Source · Domestic Homicide Review
Brent review
CSP: BrentPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2017Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review found limited agency awareness of the victim's extensive coercive control and economic abuse. Barriers to reporting included the victim's perception that non-physical abuse would not be taken seriously by police, a lack of safety planning for separation, and insufficient public understanding of coercive control.
Home Office classifications
32 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to workplace (employer) as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - digital stalking
Aggravating factors - honour based violence
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership reviews its current plan to inform the public of what they can do if they know or suspect someone is the victim of domestic abuse.
That Greater Manchester Police should determine whether their current domestic abuse policies and practices are a barrier to victims reporting domestic abuse in cases where physical injuries are absent.
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership reviews the advice available for victims on the increased danger they face when leaving abusive relationships and whether that advice is well known and readily accessible.
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership reviews its current domestic abuse strategy to determine if it focusses sufficiently on coercive and controlling behaviour, including economic abuse, how communities can be informed of what it is and what to do when they recognise it.
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership considers how best it can engage the private sector to develop bespoke policies that support employees experiencing domestic abuse.