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
Leicester review
CSP: LeicesterPublished: July 2023Year of death: 2018Extracted: 5 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 minimal agency involvement with the victim and missed opportunities to identify coercive control and economic abuse. It also notes a lack of community awareness regarding domestic abuse indicators, third-party reporting, and the heightened risk during separation.
Home Office classifications
25 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
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
Perpetrator - died by suicide
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
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
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 4 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners
The Community Safety Partnership with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland should ensure that awareness raising campaigns are reviewed to ensure they include indicators of increased risk, coercive control, economic abuse and third-party reporting when friends and family are concerned about someone they know is a victim of domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners
The Community Safety Partnership with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland should promote and develop safe access points, where victims of abuse can access advice and support.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners
The Community Safety Partnership with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland should undertake a Leicestershire-wide needs and gap analysis to determine current tactical and operational compliance with the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Components 1, to ensure accessible provision of a non-criminal justice perpetrator programme.
A reminder should be circulated by Leicestershire Police to ensure all Police Officers are aware of the relevant case law in relation to Section 39 assaults and the link to non-violent coercive and/or controlling behaviour.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners
The Community Safety Partnership with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland should develop or commission training in relation to economic abuse within the context of domestic abuse based on the learning from this case.