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
Kent review
CSP: KentPublished: May 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 1 rec
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 health professionals to explore the perpetrator's disclosures of childhood abuse and a lack of consistent identification of his learning difficulties, alongside issues with recording domestic abuse incidents.
Home Office classifications
28 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
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 - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
1 recommendation pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust must ensure that if patients disclose child abuse to professionals, the nature of this should be explored. Any further detail should be recorded and consideration given to sharing this information if serious criminal offences are disclosed because the patient may not have been the only victim.