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
North Devon and Torridge review
CSP: North Devon and TorridgePublished: April 2023Year of death: 2011Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
This DHR found no prior indication of domestic abuse or agency contact, concluding the homicide was unpredictable. However, it highlights learning points regarding alcohol, social isolation, controlling behaviours, risks at relationship breakdown, and the importance of healthcare professionals proactively inquiring about domestic abuse.
Home Office classifications
10 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 5 matched to organisations in the index
Encourage an approach to assessment that explores the background to low self-esteem, a particular form of damaging behaviour or lifestyle rather than just treating the symptoms, and ensure that records are kept to show where this has taken place.
Maintain a variety of means of raising awareness among the public and front line staff in rural areas of the nature of domestic abuse, and of the help available. This should include awareness that abuse includes coercion and control as well as violence.