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: Leicester
Published: July 2023
Year of death: 2018
Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
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.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners |
| 2 | 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. | Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners |
| 3 | 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. | Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners |
| 4 | 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. | Leicestershire Police |
| 5 | 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. | Community Safety Partnership | Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland partners |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||