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
Tower Hamlets review
CSP: Tower HamletsPublished: December 2022Year of death: 2018Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified systemic missed opportunities by multiple agencies to identify and respond to escalating domestic abuse, coercive control, and stalking. These included failures in information sharing, consistent referral to specialist support, and a lack of mandatory domestic abuse training for front-line staff.
Home Office classifications
38 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - depression
Victim - self harm
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
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 - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional 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 - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - housing services 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 - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Addressed to
LB Tower Hamlets | Community Safety Partnership
Review domestic abuse awareness and training for front-line staff (including the wider definition of coercion and control, also its impact on safeguarding children) and devise a programme to ensure it is a mandatory requirement for current and new front-line staff
Addressed to
LB Tower Hamlets | Registered Providers of Social Housing
Registered Providers of Social Housing should consider the ‘Whole Housing Toolkit’ and Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) accreditation to improve their responses to victims of domestic abuse, in particular to highlight possible indicators of financial/domestic abuse and improve awareness of the support available