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
Wolverhampton review
CSP: WolverhamptonPublished: March 2024Year of death: 2013Extracted: 16 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified systemic failures in multi-agency responses to a high-risk domestic abuse case involving reciprocal violence and severe alcohol/mental health issues. Concerns included inconsistent risk assessment, poor information sharing, lack of engagement with services, and ineffective criminal justice interventions, leading to a predictable tragic outcome.
Home Office classifications
40 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - was a carer
Victim - carer for perpetrator
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - referred to marac at any time
Victim - case heard at marac before homicide
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - physical disability
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to social services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended drug and alcohol services
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
16 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
That an independent review of the Wolverhampton MARAC is undertaken after systemic, organisational and staffing issues have been addressed, to ensure compliance with best practice.
Addressed to
Safer Wolverhampton Partnership | West Midlands Police | IDVA services | Safeguarding Boards
A learning event to be delivered to all attendees at MARAC, coordinator, IDVAs, Support workers and WMP domestic abuse and safeguarding teams, specialist DV teams and agency frontline practitioners across all agencies represented on safeguarding Boards
Addressed to
Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership
Wolverhampton CSP to highlight the need for sufficient IDVA capacity to be provided by city-wide commissioners in line with CAADA recommendations that IDVA teams should have specialisms across the team in the criminal justice system, family courts, substance use, mental health, young people, safeguarding, sexual violence, housing, and BME and male victims.
Addressed to
Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership | Safeguarding Adults Board | Safeguarding Children Board
Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership to ensure domestic violence features as part of the Safeguarding Adults and Children Board’s development of a multi-agency early alert system
Addressed to
Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership
That Wolverhampton Community Safety Partnership highlight gaps in academic research on reciprocal violence where identifying the primary victim/offender is problematic.