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: BristolPublished: June 2025Year of death: 2017Extracted: 6 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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.
Home Office classifications
23 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - physical disability
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police 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 - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - probation services recommendations
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 6 matched to organisations in the index
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.
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
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.
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.