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
Durham review
CSP: DurhamPublished: April 2023Year of death: 2011Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The report highlights the perpetrator's history of violence, alcohol use, and breach of bail conditions as factors that, if identified and acted upon, could have potentially prevented the homicide of the victim.
Home Office classifications
21 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
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 - living with perpetrator (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 - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
The DHR review panel recommends that the Safe Durham Partnership explores the opportunities for agencies to undertake a weapons amnesty in targeted areas of the County.
The SDP asks the Durham Constabulary to consider where individuals are subject to bail for crimes of violence (GBH) Officers In Charge of an investigation proactively consider and document rationale for their decision that a formal letter is handed to the suspect/defendant.
Any perpetrator of violent crime (GBH) should, as a matter of course, be subject to targeted bail checks in order to reduce or minimise the risk to the victim(s). This should be based on the potential risks presented to the victim and witnesses. Information sharing with agencies is critical to ensuring effective and timely verification checks are made.
SDP to ask all agencies to review how they share information in relation to excessive use of alcohol where cases indicate this is appropriate to prevent or reduce both violent crime and offences of Domestic Abuse happening in the future.