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

Bristol review

CSP: Bristol Published: June 2025 Year of death: 2017 Extracted: 6 recs

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

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Summary

Agencies did not consistently assess the risk of inter-familial harm, particularly regarding the perpetrator's domestic abuse history beyond intimate partners. Information sharing between probation and housing was a gap, and police response to 'low' risk domestic incidents was sometimes inadequate.

Extracted recommendations

6 recommendations pulled from the report

#	Recommendation	Addressed to
1	After arrest and start of investigations, the whole offence history is to be considered as far as possible to better understand behaviours and level of risk and where appropriate this information shared with other agencies.	Avon and Somerset Police
2	Probation risk assessments should include all current and historic information relevant to risk. This may include convicted and unconvicted matters	Probation Service
3	Probation services should ensure that enforcement decisions are clearly recorded on case management systems and risk assessed. In particular, if a decision is made not to recall following a breach the rational should be clearly recorded	Probation Service
4	Probation should ensure that address checks are completed as per guidance particularly in cases with a known history of domestic violence.	Probation Service
5	Domestic abuse history checks should be done by probation on all cases where there is knowledge of previous domestic abuse and that the individual being released on licence is not going to be accommodated by a person potentially or actually vulnerable.	Probation Service
6	In Impact Offender Management cases, police Offender Managers ensure that all recorded information related to the individual being processed is passed to the probation Offender Manager to inform risk assessments.	Avon and Somerset Police
Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗