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: July 2023Year of death: 2017Extracted: 12 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The report identifies concerns regarding agencies' assessment and response to escalating domestic abuse risks, including the downgrading of police risk assessments despite indicators of coercive control and strangulation by the perpetrator. It highlights missed opportunities for intervention and support, and a lack of awareness among the victim's family and friends on how to seek help.
Home Office classifications
31 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to housing services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - digital stalking
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
12 recommendations pulled from the report · 7 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
The learning from this DHR repeats the learning identified in other recent DHRs in the Rochdale area. Rochdale Community Safety Partnership should recognise this and identify if the learning in this review can be used as evidence to support recommendations made in those other reviews particularly around raising the knowledge of family and friends, what to do when leaving an abusive relationship and raising awareness about controlling and coercive behaviour.
Addressed to
Rochdale Community Safety Partnership
That Rochdale Community Safety Partnership recommend to the Home Office that there is a need to conduct national research that looks at the story of perpetrators of abuse and why they behaved in the way they did.
Review the drafted amendments to the Responsive Repairs Policy version 0.9 and seek to understand if this can be implemented. This policy states in section 5 “…..Where exceptional circumstances occur which pose an immediate health and safety risk we will aim to attend within four hours…”
Rochdale Division to provide guidance to officers who triage PPIs to ensure that a full review of history is conducted and that a structured rationale for the risk assessment is placed on to the PPI. Consideration to be given with regards to role our across GMP.
GMP to review its guidance given to investigating officers in respect of Domestic Assaults where victims do not support a prosecution. This is with a view to prescribing what is expected from the investigating officer.