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
Stoke-on-Trent review
CSP: Stoke-on-TrentPublished: April 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 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 identified challenges in multi-agency information sharing and the need for a holistic overview of cumulative incidents and offending. It also highlighted the importance of training for frontline staff to identify broader vulnerabilities and pursue evidence-led prosecutions when victims are unwilling to cooperate.
Home Office classifications
36 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - probation 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 - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
It is recommended that the agencies within the Community Safety Partnership consider a referral mechanism to MAPPA (or a similar forum) where there is evidence that individuals or members of family groups are involved in cumulative offending or incidents of concern to ensure effective multi-agency information sharing, planning and response.
It is recommended that training to front line staff ensures they are provided with appropriate tools to ascertain why a victim may not wish to support a complaint or prosecution and to understand the tools available to bring an evidence-led prosecution.
Addressed to
National Probation Service – Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
When a referral has been accepted by the Criminal Justice Mental Health Team and an offender chooses to later decline these services, even though the officer assesses there is ongoing need, the officer should attempt to set up dissonance/motivate in an attempt to ensure services are taken up.
Information to be shared between Cooperative Working and external partners more effectively through the use of a “consent to share” form for service users.