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
Dacorum review
CSP: DacorumPublished: June 2023Year of death: 2018Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review highlights the deterioration of a sibling relationship following parental deaths and an inheritance dispute, leading to a fatal assault. It notes challenges in predicting violence escalation and the limited applicability of domestic abuse tools and support pathways for non-intimate familial abuse.
Home Office classifications
15 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - housing issues
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 friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
3 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Hertfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership | Dacorum Community Safety Partnership
All agencies to continue with the identified training surrounding Domestic Abuse and Coercion and Control. This to include the rolling out of the J9 project (appendix C) within Hertfordshire for all agencies, including non-professionals.
Addressed to
Hertfordshire County Council | NHS Hertfordshire ICBs | Hertfordshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
To ensure that clear pathways for victims of familial abuse within Hertfordshire are embedded into the future commissioning of domestic abuse services.
The CSP to carry out a leaflet drop providing information highlighting domestic abuse and the referral pathways to leisure facilities and community centres within their district.