Domestic Homicide Review

In 2011 the Government implemented Domestic Violence, Crime, and Victim Act 2004.

What does this mean?

A domestic homicide is defined as a person aged 16 or whose death has or appears to have been the result of violence, abuse or neglect by:

• A person to whom he/she was related or had been in an intimate personal relationship
• A member of the same household

Agencies, including the police, ourselves, and health services from the local area will then carry out a review. The review will:

• Establish what lessons can be learned from the domestic homicide.
• Look at the way in which local professionals and organisations work individually and together to keep victims safe
• Identify clearly what those lessons are both within and between agencies
• Identify how the lessons will be acted on and how long that will take to be acted on
• Identify what is expected to change as a result
• Apply those lessons to service responses including changes to policies and procedures as appropriate
• Prevent domestic violence homicide
• Improve how services respond to all domestic violence victims and their children
• Improved how the different agencies work together
• Improve how agencies work internally

Domestic Homicide Reviews and action plans

• Domestic Homicide Review 1 - Review into the death of a couple in their 80s who died in 2013 (PDF document)
• Domestic Homicide Review 2 - Review into the death of a woman in her 80s who died in 2015 (PDF document)
• Domestic Homicide Review 3 - Review into the death of 'Jane', a woman in her 50s who died in 2016 (PDF document)
• Domestic Homicide Review 4 - Review into the death of 'A', a woman in her 40s who died in 2018 (full review) (PDF document)
• Domestic Homicide Review 4 - Review into the death of 'A', a woman in her 40s who died in 2018 (executive summary) (PDF document)
• Domestic Homicide Review 5 - review into the death of 'Anne' a woman in her 40's who died in 2021 (executive summary)