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
Cheshire West and Chester review
CSP: Cheshire West and ChesterPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2018Extracted: 9 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Agencies failed to recognise domestic abuse when the victim was a parent, leading to missed risk assessments. Health professionals did not adequately triangulate information with family, impacting holistic assessments. Families supporting individuals with substance misuse were not signposted to appropriate support.
Home Office classifications
37 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
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 - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
Perpetrator - managed by mappa
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
9 recommendations pulled from the report · 4 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Cheshire West and Chester Community Safety Partnership
The Domestic Abuse Partnership to reassure the CSP that learning from this review has been disseminated and that domestic abuse training recognises that parents can be victims. The Home Office information on Adult to Parent Violence should be referenced.
Addressed to
Cheshire West and Chester Community Safety Partnership
Statutory partners to provide reassurance to the CSP that Professionals seek to triangulate information which may help them to inform a more holistic assessment of a patient/client which is inclusive of information available from family and partner agencies.
Addressed to
Cheshire West and Chester Community Safety Partnership
Statutory partners to provide reassurance to the CSP that where appropriate and possible agencies should signpost relatives of those who misuse drugs and or alcohol to appropriate support, for example Alanon.