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
Lincoln review
CSP: LincolnPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2016Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The DHR highlights a profound lack of understanding of coercive and controlling behaviour by both the family and professionals, leading to a failure to recognise and address long-term domestic abuse. It also notes the heightened risk of harm during or immediately after separation.
Home Office classifications
34 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - panic attacks
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - died by suicide
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - school recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 4 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (LSCP)
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership (LSCP) should convene a series of practitioner’s events across the County for agencies, using the lessons learned from this case. This will highlight the effect of controlling and coercive behaviour, also the risk posed at the time or immediately after a separation. The partnership could extend these events both regionally and nationally.
The SLP should engage with the Home office or other national organisations, in order to engage nationally with learning concerning the significance of controlling and coercive behaviour. This is to consider a nationwide publicity campaign using the victims, Luke and Ryan’s life story as the case study. The purpose of this is to gain wider public understanding of what coercive control means. This will also enable perpetrators to recognise that their behaviour to their family is abusive and criminal. This could include leaflets and posters where appropriate.
The SLP should ensure that each statutory agency within their area provides assurance that its strategic safeguarding leads have raised training and awareness in their agency so that front-line staff can recognise the signs and symptoms of coercive and controlling behaviour as a form of domestic abuse.
The SLP should ask the CCG to issue a guidance note and consider training for all GP practices in their area highlighting the need to ask questions overtly about DA, and to require that they have up to date knowledge of Coercive Control as a form of domestic abuse.
The SLP should ask the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) to consider adopting a coercive control-based definition in future children and domestic abuse work and moving beyond a physical incident model which would enable them to develop deeper understanding of these children’s lived experiences and support needs.
The SLP should ask the LSCB to consider making a request to schools within their area that the awareness sessions that they run on DA include controlling and coercive behaviour.