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 LeicestershirePublished: September 2025Year of death: 2018Extracted: 3 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
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.
Home Office classifications
35 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - was a carer
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - housing issues
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - physical disability
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
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 others as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to friends as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to family as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - stalking
Aggravating factors - physical stalking
Aggravating factors - digital stalking
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
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.
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.
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.