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: June 2023Year of death: 2017Extracted: 6 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 concerns regarding police handling of prior harassment reports, including crime recording and victim support provision. It also highlights issues with mental health service engagement and policy adherence, alongside the rapid escalation of post-separation stalking and harassment to homicide.
Home Office classifications
23 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - digital stalking
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 5 matched to organisations in the index
Staffordshire Police must submit a report to the Kent and Medway Community Safety Partnership detailing how, if this case was reported today, the degree of victim focus would be greater, based on their revised Stalking and Harassment Policy.
Kent Police and Staffordshire Police should give victims of stalking and harassment details of a domestic abuse or specialist stalking support organisation local to the victim.
KMPT must ensure that the handover of a case to the PCMHS is managed in a way that ensures the PCMHS is able to deliver the required level of treatment and service following it.