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: LiverpoolPublished: May 2023Year of death: 2016Extracted: 3 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 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.
Home Office classifications
24 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - was a carer
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - panic attacks
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - physical disability
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
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.
Addressed to
National Probation Service North West
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.
Addressed to
National Probation Service North West
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.