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
Southampton review
CSP: SouthamptonPublished: February 2024Year of death: 2015Extracted: 4 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 challenges in engaging with specific communities regarding communication, police relations, and access to support services. It also raises concerns about the lack of information sharing on serious international criminal convictions and the flexibility of DHR guidance for cases not involving intimate relationships.
Home Office classifications
10 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - immigration involvement
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
4 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
On the basis of the proportion of Polish residents in Southampton that the Safe City Partnership considers the development of an enhanced approach to this community. This should address issues of relationships with the police and more general communication (including language issues) with other agencies as highlighted within this report.
Addressed to
Southampton City Clinical Commissioning Group | other agencies
That Health and other agencies be given the tools to develop an approach to professional inquisitiveness that seeks to establish the potential risk to individuals and delivers an improvement to risk awareness, management of risk and subsequent communication processes.
That the Home Office consider the issue where those with serious previous convictions are entering the country and whether a process should be instituted to gather and risk assess such information.
That the Home Office consider allowing more flexibility in the guidance for DHRs to allow local Community Safety Partnerships to make a case for not completing such a review where the circumstance of a homicide do not fall within the spirit of the guidance, as for example in this case where the victim and suspect had not been in an intimate personal relationship, nor were they related in any way.