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
Bolton review
CSP: BoltonPublished: April 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 1 rec
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The DHR identified significant agency silo working, a lack of focus on domestic abuse indicators, and inconsistent information sharing regarding the perpetrator's history and the victim's vulnerabilities. This led to missed opportunities to identify and respond to the coercive control and potential harm the victim faced, and an ineffective initial response to the victim's disappearance.
Home Office classifications
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Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - removed into care
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
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 - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
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 supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - housing 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
That Be Safe Bolton Strategic Partnership obtains assurance that the silo working evident in this DHR is addressed effectively by rigorously monitoring the outcome of relevant single agency recommendations.