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
Tewkesbury review
CSP: TewkesburyPublished: September 2023Year of death: 2015Extracted: 6 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 that the victim made informal disclosures of coercive control to friends and colleagues, but these were not formally reported to agencies, limiting risk assessment opportunities. A lack of understanding of coercive control at the time and the high-risk nature of separation were also noted.
Home Office classifications
27 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to school 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 workplace (employer) 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 - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family received draft report
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
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
The Community Safety Partnership should write to the Law Society and Association of Family Lawyers bringing their attention to this DHR and ask them to consider issuing appropriate guidance.
The Community Safety Partnership should use this review to highlight to multi-agency employers/employees multi-agency that there is national guidance in place and that HR can support around concerns of an employee experiencing domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Community Safety Partnership | County
The Community Safety Partnershipand County to endorse and support the Concordat and take steps to highlight the role of HR in supporting employees who may be experiencing any element of domestic abuse. This should include seeking assurance that HR leads are aware of national guidance and also encourage the use “Working Without Fear” from the Hollie Gazzard Trust (see at Appendix 1) as a practical and up to date toolkit.
This review acknowledges this insight by primary care and adopts the IMR recommendation but the GP in this case demonstrated good and thoughtful practice.