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
Lincoln review
CSP: LincolnPublished: October 2025Year of death: 2021Extracted: 11 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review identified challenges in supporting a male victim of domestic abuse who struggled to recognise his victim status due to a trauma bond and co-dependency. It also highlighted the complex interplay of alcohol misuse, mental health issues, and bidirectional abuse, which collectively impacted his ability to seek and receive effective help.
Home Office classifications
43 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - died by suicide
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - substance misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - neurodiverse condition diagnosis
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Victim - referred to marac at any time
Victim - case heard at marac before homicide
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - known to agencies as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to police as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to mental health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
Perpetrator - known to idva or other domestic abuse support service 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 - 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
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
DHR process - technology systems recommendation themes
DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - policy recommendation themes
DHR process - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
11 recommendations pulled from the report · 5 matched to organisations in the index
The senior leadership of agencies represented must invest in developing a trauma-informed strategy. The leadership team designs an organisational plan that takes trauma into account. This involves a focus on patient participation, clinical and non-clinical staff training, and establishing a safe environment.
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership will seek assurances from partners regarding the availability of trauma-informed training for their staff and to receive feedback where possible on the training delivered.
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse partnership should ensure ongoing campaigns to promote awareness of healthy relationships to support male victims/survivors and practitioners in identifying and responding to domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership is tasked with developing a resource toolkit that the partnership can access to aid in the identification of bidirectional abuse and the availability of support for victims/survivors.
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership
Lincolnshire Domestic Abuse Partnership to receive assurance from partners regarding their duties under the Controlling or Coercive Behaviour Statutory Guidance Framework.81
Public Health to ensure the local suicide prevention strategy will consider the impact of alcohol abuse and dual diagnosis on the risk of death by suicide.
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
People who experience alcohol problems concurrently should not be prohibited from receiving psychological counselling services. This is consistent with the NHS Access to Psychological Therapies Improvement Manual for 2021.82
Addressed to
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
To involve service users in collaboratively deciding on their care and facilitating access to services. Information to service users must be provided in an easily accessible format.