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: Somerset Published: March 2025 Year of death: 2022 Extracted: 2 recs

Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.

Original review (PDF) ↗ Source: Home Office DHR Library

Summary AI-generated

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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

Recommendation R1

Addressed to Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗

Recommendation R2

Addressed to Children’s Social Care

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.

Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗