Recommendation 1
Ensure the learning from this review is disseminated to all agencies and services that are likely to encounter domestic abuse.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗
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
Wolverhampton review
CSP: Wolverhampton
Published: October 2025
Year of death: 2021
Extracted: 7 recs
Statutory domestic homicide review under section 9 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004. Source: Home Office DHR Library.
Original review (PDF) ↗
Source: Home Office DHR Library
Summary AI-generated
The review identified chronic, hidden domestic abuse and coercive control, exacerbated by cultural factors within the Sikh and Panjabi community. Agencies failed to identify the abuse, adequately assess risks to the victim and children, and lacked professional curiosity regarding the victim's mental health as a symptom of abuse.
Home Office classifications
51 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
- Victim - was a carer
- Victim - mental ill health
- Victim - adjustment disorder
- Victim - anxiety
- Victim - depression
- Victim - self harm
- Victim - suicidal thoughts
- Victim - suicide attempts
- Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (victim and perpetrator)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between victims)
- Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
- 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
- Child - primary address same as victim
- Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
- Perpetrator - mental ill health
- Perpetrator - depression
- Perpetrator - psychosis
- Perpetrator - suicidal thoughts
- 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 health services as a domestic abuse perpetrator
- Perpetrator - known to mental health 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
- Perpetrator - died by suicide
- Perpetrator - immigration involvement
- Aggravating factors - separation
- Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
- Aggravating factors - 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 - family received draft report
- DHR process - police recommendations
- DHR process - social services recommendations
- DHR process - health services recommendations
- DHR process - community safety partnership recommendations
- DHR process - identification of risk recommendation themes
- DHR process - training recommendation themes
- DHR process - policy recommendation themes
- DHR process - record keeping recommendation themes
- DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
- DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
Recommendation 2
Gain assurance about the level of resourcing and usage of interpreting services available in the area for all agencies and services.
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Recommendation 3
Ensure all schools in the local area are participating in Operation Encompass, the Police led initiative of informing schools of domestic abuse related incidents attended by officers, where children of school age might be present, so as to support welfare-based interventions if needed.
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Recommendation 4
Where information is obtained which suggests local religious leaders may be using charms or other idiosyncratic practices to ‘ward off evil spirits’, consideration should be given to a timely, sensitive yet robust assessment being undertaken by the relevant agencies i.e., children’s/adults’ services, Police, to ensure there is no evidence of child/adult abuse or exploitation of any sort. Following assessment, and dependent on the outcome, educative intervention should be provided with continued oversight.
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Recommendation 5
Given the particular circumstances of this case in respect of child abuse, the Partnership should seek assurance that the correct procedures and pathway are applied to cases (similar to those identified in this case) where there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child who lives, or is found, in their area is suffering, or is likely to suffer, significant harm.
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Recommendation 6
Map and raise the profile of support services that are available for victims of domestic abuse. Raising the profile should include targeting campaigns involving Gurdwara’s, Asian TV channels, community centres, bus and travel billboarding sites, GP Practices, local supermarket notice boards.
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Recommendation 7
Further efforts should be made to reach out to all local Gurdwara’s, which are established as charitable entities with responsibilities outlined under the Charity Commission, to support the creation, implementation, embedding and regular review of safeguarding policies and procedures. Engaging Gurdwara leaders in the process will be critical to success.
Verified wording from the published review · Original review (PDF) ↗