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
Somerset review
CSP: SomersetPublished: March 2025Year of death: 2022Extracted: 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 identified inconsistent domestic abuse risk assessments, inadequate responses to coercive control and stalking, and fragmented multi-agency information sharing. Concerns also include a lack of trauma-informed practice and insufficient support from specialist domestic abuse services, particularly for a victim with intersecting needs and neurodivergent children.
Home Office classifications
53 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - died by suicide
Victim - was a carer
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - panic attacks
Victim - post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - referred to marac at any time
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 - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
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 idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to probation services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - attended perpetrator programme
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
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 - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - other educational institution 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 - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Review support for victims where patients were not deemed to be suffering from current domestic abuse, stating this was an apparent lack of provision in Somerset.
A lead professional would have been a welcome addition prior to FIS involvement and the Team Around the Child (TAC) meetings. This would have ensured support was coordinated for Angela at an earlier stage.