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

East and Mid Devon review

CSP: East and Mid Devon Published: April 2023 Year of death: 2015 Extracted: 3 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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The review highlights the complexities of relationship breakdown in later life, with mismatched expectations and communication issues. It notes the perpetrator's mental distress and the victim's controlling behaviour, alongside a lack of prior domestic abuse indicators, posing challenges for agency intervention and identification of risk.

Home Office classifications

16 tags

Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.

Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - adjustment disorder
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - died by suicide
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

3 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index

Recommendation R1

Addressed to Safer Devon Partnership

Promote awareness among older people in Devon of the availability of local advice and support with relationship problems, including domestic abuse.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R2

Addressed to NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group

Identify and share good practice in primary care settings in connecting patients who report relationship concerns or domestic abuse with appropriate sources of support.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R3

Addressed to Home Office

(National) In future national analysis of domestic homicide review reports, check the prevalence of domestic homicides in which no evidence of prior domestic abuse (fitting the proposed statutory definition12) can be found after the event.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗