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
Test Valley review
CSP: Test ValleyPublished: August 2026Year of death: 2019Extracted: 7 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 inter-agency information sharing and risk assessment, leading to missed opportunities to intervene in escalating domestic abuse. Barriers to reporting abuse were also noted, stemming from the victim's fear of statutory consequences.
Home Office classifications
41 tags
Source-supplied classifications used by the Home Office to catalogue this review.
Victim - alcohol misuse
Victim - pregnancy
Victim - mental ill health
Victim - depression
Victim - self harm
Victim - suicidal thoughts
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 - subject to child protection or domestic abuse prior to homicide
Child - primary address same as victim
Perpetrator - case heard in court
Perpetrator - issued life sentence
Perpetrator - alcohol misuse
Perpetrator - substance misuse
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 school 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
Aggravating factors - separation
Aggravating factors - sexual abuse
Aggravating factors - physical abuse
DHR process - family contributed to dhr
DHR process - family supported by expert specialist advocate
DHR process - police recommendations
DHR process - social services recommendations
DHR process - health services recommendations
DHR process - idva or other domestic abuse support service recommendations
DHR process - school 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 - multi agency working recommendation themes
DHR process - awareness raising recommendation themes
Extracted recommendations
7 recommendations pulled from the report · 2 matched to organisations in the index
Addressed to
Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership | CSD
The Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and CSD should work with schools to reinforce expectations, processes and good practice around raising safeguarding concerns, with the aim of achieving full and timely referral processes to enhance the safety of children.
Addressed to
Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership should incorporate the learning from this review into the annual Safeguarding in Education Assessment that is undertaken in all schools, especially focussing on recognising signs and symptoms of abuse, local referral pathways and record keeping.
Addressed to
Hampshire Constabulary | Dorset Police
Subject to the outcome of the IOPC investigations, Hampshire Constabulary and Dorset Police should review the impact of their training and supervision of domestic violence and abuse to ensure that their officers and staff are applying it to undertake full and broad investigations that do not hinge on the co-operation and/ or support of victims. In so doing both police services should ensure the signs and symptoms of coercion and control are well understood and applied.
Addressed to
Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership
The Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership should develop a comprehensive Information Sharing Agreement between the safeguarding partners and all ‘Relevant Agencies’ which provides a shared commitment to what information is to be shared and how. This should be informed by the learning from this review and the outcomes of the biannual MASH Multi Agency audit which focuses explicitly on information sharing, assessment and decision making.
Hampshire Constabulary should review its revised domestic abuse risk management arrangements to assure themselves and partners that they are achieving the desired outcomes in terms of recognition of vulnerability and provision of services to reduce escalation of risk.
The Hampshire Domestic Abuse Partnership should assure that guidance, policies and practice supporting routine and targeted enquiry for domestic abuse are fully understood and applied so that opportunities to identify abuse and signpost or offer services appropriate to need are taken.
The Test Valley CSP develops a wide-reaching communication strategy that publicises the full nature of domestic abuse services with particular emphasis on the supportive nature of those services, aimed especially towards those who may have had negative experiences of statutory services in the past. The purpose should be to improve confidence in all survivors, perpetrators and third parties, of any gender, to seek help and to reduce fear of negative consequences in raising concerns.