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
North Tyneside review
CSP: North TynesidePublished: June 2023Year of death: 2014Extracted: 2 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review found limited agency involvement and no clear indications of risk or violence prior to the homicides, making the event largely unpredictable. However, it identified a need to review policies for managing 'did not attend' appointments, particularly concerning adult patient vulnerability.
Home Office classifications
18 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
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 - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
North Tyneside CCG advise all partners to discuss the overall vulnerability of adult patients when considering what follow up actions should be taken in the case of DNAs in any area of the partnership.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Safeguarding Adults Board
Community Safety Partnership to work with Safeguarding Adults Board to ask Partners to review their policy and procedures when clients default from service provision (Do Not Attend) to ensure that the vulnerability of the patient is taken into consideration when deciding what action (if any) needs to be taken.