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
Lincoln review
CSP: LincolnPublished: July 2023Year of death: 2019Extracted: 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 identifies concerns regarding the depth of professional curiosity in exploring family dynamics and negative comments from individuals with mental health issues. It highlights the need for practitioners to assess risks of violence to others from those with suicidal ideation, and to be aware of academic pressure and violent media consumption as potential risk factors.
Home Office classifications
21 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - immigration involvement
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Child - immigration involvement
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - suicide attempts
Perpetrator - supervised by mental health services
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - other educational institution recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - policy 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
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership should actively encourage professionals that work within the emotional and mental health arena, in the Lincolnshire area, to make use of professional curiosity. They should also provide a briefing in relation to the vulnerabilities of ACEs and risk of matricide.
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership should ask the Lincolnshire Suicide Prevention Partnership to promote messages in relation to risks to others in particular family members from those individuals who are expressing self-harm and suicide ideation.
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership should ensure that those working with students are fully aware of the risks that academic pressure brings in relation to research highlighting this as one of the key risk factors in suicide and homicide.
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership should ensure that the University encourages all students to ‘opt in’ and when sharing information do share with the ‘nominated person’ the risk of harm to themselves and others.
The Safer Lincolnshire Partnership should ensure that the risks of increased aggression involved with watching violent films is communicated in learning bulletins. (Although fully acknowledged that the perpetrator watching violent films wasn’t known by professionals until the criminal trial, it is good learning from practitioners to be aware of this risk and vulnerability.)