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
Liverpool review
CSP: LiverpoolPublished: October 2025Year of death: 2021Extracted: 5 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
The review highlights inconsistent use of interpreters and a lack of professional curiosity among agencies regarding culturally specific issues and honour-based abuse, leading to missed opportunities to identify and assess risks for the victim, an asylum seeker and refugee.
Home Office classifications
28 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - anxiety
Victim - depression
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - serious or life limiting illness
Victim - immigration involvement
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Child - immigration involvement
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - mental ill health
Perpetrator - anxiety
Perpetrator - depression
Perpetrator - serious or life limiting illness
Perpetrator - immigration involvement
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - housing services recommendations
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
5 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
All agencies involved in the review | Domestic Abuse Board
All agencies should provide the Domestic Abuse Board with assurance that effective arrangements for interpreter services are in place and that staff will not rely on family or community members to interpret for each other.
Addressed to
All agencies involved in the review | Domestic Abuse Board
All agencies involved in the review should provide the Domestic Abuse Board with assurance that screening questioning and risk assessments of service users include considerations around culturally specific issues and domestic abuse.
Addressed to
All agencies involved in the review | Domestic Abuse Board
All agencies involved in the review should provide the Domestic Abuse Board with evidence that training has been provided to staff on culturally specific issues, honour-based abuse, and the links with domestic abuse.
Addressed to
Liverpool City Council (Safer and Stronger Communities) | Liverpool City Council (Our Liverpool) | Specialist domestic abuse services
Safer and Stronger Communities should support Our Liverpool in establishing effective governance around the central strategy to support people seeking asylum, refugees, and vulnerable migrants (known as the ’ASRVM Strategy’). Specialist domestic abuse services should be attendees to multi-agency meetings, to identify intervention opportunities to support those at risk of domestic abuse.
The Home Office should disseminate to all local authorities, the details of a single point of access for all immigration and asylum enquiries arising from DHRs.