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
Cardiff review
CSP: CardiffPublished: October 2025Year of death: 2016Extracted: 4 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identifies key concerns regarding the failure of multiple agencies to identify the perpetrator's severe psychotic mental illness, a crucial factor in the homicide, alongside inconsistencies in inter-agency information sharing and risk assessment for domestic abuse and vulnerability.
Home Office classifications
39 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - housing issues
Victim - physical disability
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Children - present at homicide (including adult children)
Children - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Children - removed into care
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - substance misuse
Perpetrator - housing issues
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - psychosis
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 idva or other domestic abuse support service as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to housing 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 - attended drug and alcohol services
Perpetrator - supervised by probation services
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - psychological or emotional abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
Aggravating factors - economic abuse
DHR process - housing services recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
The Cardiff Public Services Board reviews both its strategic and tactical management and support to victims of mental health especially those victims currently being supported for substance and alcohol addiction.
That the outcomes of both the Child Practice Review and the Domestic Homicide Review are shared and considered by the Cardiff Public Services Board and any consistent themes are acted upon in a coordinated way.
Cardiff Housing reviews policy, practice, and relevant training to ensure all staff are aware of their responsibilities in tackling Domestic Abuse especially in taking a partnership approach to problem solve.
The Home Office Quality Assurance Panel provides additional information and clarity with regards to the Home Office Guidance for the conduct of Domestic Homicide Reviews dated December 2016. Particular clarification is required of paragraphs 99 and 100 that relates specifically to Health Service support to such reviews. This is critical to those perpetrators who have been subject to judicial proceedings and are serving substantial custodial sentences.