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
Liverpool review
CSP: Liverpool
Published: May 2023
Year of death: 2016
Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review identifies missed opportunities by agencies to fully explore reported domestic abuse, volatility, and acrimony in the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, leading to potentially weaker risk assessments. It also highlights a failure to consider child safeguarding risks for children exposed to the perpetrator.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | That Merseyside Police determines whether its 2017 domestic abuse investigative practices include seeing family and friends in order to build up a profile of the relationship and gather evidence, and if not, to consider whether additional advice or direction needs to be promulgated. | Merseyside Police |
| 2 | That the National Probation Service North West determines whether its 2017 practice around exploring the details of reported volatile and acrimonious relationships within the context of domestic violence is sufficiently robust to identify risk factors. | National Probation Service North West |
| 3 | That the National Probation Service North West provides a written account to Citysafe of how it safeguards children who have contact with offenders whose risks they are managing. | National Probation Service North West |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||