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
Rochdale review
CSP: RochdalePublished: April 2023Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identifies that agencies focused on the perpetrator's mental health and vulnerability, leading to missed opportunities for earlier criminal justice intervention for escalating harassment. There was a lack of suitable services for individuals without a formal mental disorder diagnosis who resisted engagement, and family input into assessments was limited.
Home Office classifications
21 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to mental health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Rochdale MDOP (now MVOP) reviews its policies so as to ensure the appropriate balance is achieved between the mental health and/or other needs of an offender and the point at which their behaviour ceases to be capable of being managed outside the criminal justice system;
Rochdale MDOP (now MVOP) explore opportunities to work with voluntary and third sector organisations that can provide support and services to those with mental vulnerabilities and with whom statutory agencies do not have the capacity or grounds to engage or clients are reluctant to engage with.
Rochdale MVOP panel to amend its practice and criteria to reflect the GMPs guidance in order to operate as the Mentally Vulnerable Offenders Panel (MVOP)
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership commission research through their partners in health to determine whether the involvement of family members in mental health assessments would be helpful.
Addressed to
the institution where the perpetrator is detained and receiving treatment
In order to help practitioners understand the perpetrator’s behaviour when he committed this offence it will be helpful at the appropriate stage to provide the institution where he is detained and receiving treatment with a copy of this report.