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
Huntingdonshire review
CSP: HuntingdonshirePublished: June 2026Year of death: 2023Extracted: 6 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 that domestic abuse, potentially influenced by early life experiences of Honour Based Abuse, was a contributory factor in the victim's death by suicide. It highlights challenges in disclosure to agencies and the need for expanded support for culturally specific abuse and better promotion of mental health resources.
Home Office classifications
28 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - died by suicide
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - suicidal thoughts
Victim - suicide attempts
Victim - had been a victim of an abuser before
Children - under 18 shared parental responsibility (between perpetrators)
Children - living with victim (including adult children)
Children - living with perpetrator (including adult children)
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
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
Aggravating factors - coercive or controlling behaviour
Aggravating factors - honour based violence
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 - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - training recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
DHR process - other recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
6 recommendations pulled from the report · 3 matched to organisations in the index
Cambridgeshire Police to communicate to frontline officers attending any death where there is domestic abuse history within the relationship, to consider the support needs of wider family members when the Next of Kin has been the potential abuser. This will enable support provisions to be offered to the family following their loved ones death. This will assist them at a time when they need it most and make them feel that they have not also been controlled by the perpetrator due to the process.
Cambridgeshire Police to promote Clare’s Law with concentrated focus on family/friends who may have concerns and those from differing cultures. This will provide further awareness for agencies and support provisions to advise family members who have concerns for loved ones for the risk to be assessed and their loved one to be advised if applicable for them to make a more informed decision.
Peterborough Women’s Aid to identify a funding stream to expand the Dahlia Project as a provision across Cambridgeshire. This will enable victims of HBA access to support across the County and provide sufficient resources to respond to demand in the South Asian community. An expansion to the project will also enable professionals such as the police, social care health to receive specialist training in Honour Based Abuse to ensure it is identified and the risks surrounding this type of abuse understood and responses are appropriate.
DASV to promote pathways for families and friends to assist in advice for them supporting a victim and also to provide support for themselves including in the aftermath of their loved ones death through DA. This will provide families and friends with vital information to support in the event that their loved one is suffering from domestic abuse but does not wish for them to tell anyone.
Public Health to promote the mental health websites of ‘Keep Your Head’ and How Are You (HAY) Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to assist those who are affected by mental health and domestic abuse and to assist their wider family members when searching the internet for support in these areas. Systemwide promotion of the above sites could potentially raise awareness further of domestic abuse services available in the county and the correlation DA has with suicide.
Addressed to
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board
GP Surgery to reinforce ‘make every contact count’ and ensure all GP’s provide the opportunity for disclosure of DA. This is to provide professional curiosity about DA within the health centre and to encourage them to ask questions in regard to their relationships and safety within the home.