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
Rochdale review
CSP: RochdalePublished: June 2023Extracted: 7 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 Greater Manchester Police's risk assessment processes, particularly the underestimation of the perpetrator's violent history and threats, leading to insufficient information sharing and delayed arrest attempts. It also highlights the need for improved inter-agency collaboration in identifying and managing risks within troubled families.
Home Office classifications
27 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - physical disability
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Children - removed into care
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - self harm
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 4 matched to organisations in the index
That the Head of the Public Protection Division provides guidance to practitioners and supervisors around the DASH risk assessment process to ensure that full consideration is being given to the ‘perpetrator’ and the threat / risk they pose. Research should look beyond PPI history and include an assessment of the perpetrator’s behaviour, motivation and offending history, to inform risk and to consider the capability and intent of the perpetrator.
That the Head of the Public Protection Division reviews current policy around the requirement to complete PND checks as part of the DASH risk assessment. Consideration should be given to when it is appropriate to complete PND checks and whether this should extend to standard and medium risk classifications.
That the Threats to Life Champion considers the provision of guidance / training to first response constables and their supervisors to provide an awareness of the National Threats to Life Guidelines, and the principles to be followed in cases where there is a real and immediate threat to loss of life or to cause serious harm or injury to another.
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership request Greater Manchester Police provide reports to them on progress with the implementation of the single agency recommendations within this review;
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership use this case as a learning opportunity so that professionals understand the importance of correctly assessing and documenting risk and of researching a perpetrator’s offending history.
The Home Office commission national research to identify what makes people like the perpetrator behave in the violent and aggressive way they do and then to commit homicides. This research should attempt to identify what works to prevent people behaving in this manner.
Addressed to
Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership
That Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership reinforce to all agencies the importance of early identification of families as ‘troubled’ and the mechanisms for referring concerns and sharing information.