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
Barnsley review
CSP: BarnsleyPublished: April 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 2 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 minimal agency contact with the victim and perpetrator, with no prior indications of domestic abuse. The homicide was attributed to a sudden, unpredicted deterioration in the perpetrator's mental health, limiting opportunities for intervention.
Home Office classifications
7 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Perpetrator - died by suicide
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
General Practitioners in Barnsley should be reminded of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence [NICE] guidance on anxiety disorders with specific reference to the use of assessment tools.
Addressed to
Barnsley Clinical Commissioning Group
The CCG should ensure that staff working in primary care services understand the current referral criteria for the mental health Single Point of Access Service [SPA] provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust