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
North West Leicestershire review
CSP: North West Leicestershire
Published: September 2025
Year of death: 2018
Extracted: 3 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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Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary
The review found that the perpetrator manipulated professionals, leading to a misunderstanding of the relationship dynamics and the victim's experience of coercive control and economic abuse. Agencies missed opportunities for multi-agency risk assessment, and the victim faced barriers to accessing support.
Extracted recommendations
| # | Recommendation | Addressed to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Community Safety Partnership, with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, to consider the appropriate adoption, at a multi-agency level, of the Respect Screening Tool, to support case management through the identification of primary victims and perpetrators where the presenting typology of abuse is unclear. | Community Safety Partnership |
| 2 | The Community Safety Partnership, with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland, to raise awareness raising in the community where the victim lived to ensure this includes easy access to information about indicators of domestic abuse, increased risk, coercive control, economic abuse and third-party reporting to services. | Community Safety Partnership |
| 3 | The Community Safety Partnership, with partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, to undertake a health check of information about domestic abuse, to ensure that signposting advice and pathways to support available are clearly defined where communities border neighbouring counties of local authority areas, irrespective of postcode. | Community Safety Partnership |
| Recommendations extracted from the published report. Source: Home Office DHR Library. View full report ↗ | ||