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
Southend-on-Sea review
CSP: Southend-on-SeaPublished: February 2026Year of death: 2021Extracted: 2 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 no identified warning signs or missed opportunities by professionals to prevent the homicide. However, it highlighted the importance of practitioner awareness regarding domestic abuse in older people and recommended considering a review of Carer's Allowance entitlement processes.
Home Office classifications
13 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - physical disability
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - was a carer
Perpetrator - carer for victim
Perpetrator - anxiety
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family consulted about terms of reference
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - family received draft report
DHR process - family attended dhr panel
Extracted recommendations
2 recommendations pulled from the report · 1 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Home Office | Department for Work and Pensions
The Home Office is invited to consider how the learning from this review could be shared with the Department for Work and Pensions and structured into any reviews or reforms of entitlement to Carer’s Allowance.
Addressed to
Southend Community Safety Partnership
The panel, therefore, invites the Southend Community Safety Partnership to consider how it can ensure future communications activity supports increased awareness of age variations in domestic abuse through education, advertisements, and media campaigns. This would enable the Southend Community Safety Partnership to build on its current ongoing activity with community and/or faith groups that supports the public to identify safeguarding issues and/or victims of domestic abuse and share concerns with professionals.