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

Bristol review

CSP: Bristol Published: May 2023 Year of death: 2016 Extracted: 10 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 identified systemic issues including inconsistent and incomplete risk assessments, fragmented information sharing across and within agencies, and challenges in the victim's engagement due to distrust of services. It also highlighted limited focus on the perpetrator's interventions and the need for a lead professional in complex domestic abuse cases.

Home Office classifications

35 tags

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

Victim - died by suicide
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - psychosis
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - referred to marac at any time
Victim - case heard at marac before homicide
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended perpetrator programme
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
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 - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes

Extracted recommendations

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

Recommendation 1

Addressed to Bristol City Council Children’s Services

A review of the running of meetings by Children’s Services

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

Recommendation 2

Addressed to Multiple agencies

Each agency involved in information sharing from multi agency meetings to dip sample a small number of cases to identify how the information gets shared and whether it is readily available to frontline workers to enable and inform operational activity

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