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
Epping Forest review
CSP: Epping ForestPublished: August 2023Year of death: 2016Extracted: 2 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 the challenge in identifying coercive and controlling behaviour as domestic abuse, particularly when non-physical, by both the victim and professionals. Agencies were not aware of the significance of the impact of coercion and control on the victim.
Home Office classifications
20 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - health services 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
Addressed to
West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
That, given the widening of the scope of the definition of domestic abuse to include emotional, psychological and coercive abuse (i.e. non-physical abuse), the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) should remind all relevant health professionals who are often in the privileged position of speaking to individuals in the absence of their partners and hearing their concerns, of these changes, so that they may recognise potential domestic violence through non-physical symptoms (e.g. depression, low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence etc.) and make referrals to relevant services and initiatives;
That all public facing agencies should make available to their staff and local teams leaflets, posters and other advisory information relating to the wider definition of domestic abuse and the outreach services that are available to those who believe that they may be subject to domestic abuse.