FOI 474-2025 / April 2025 / Domestic homicides
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 474-2025
Further to your request FOI-261-2025, responded to as follows:
1) The number of deaths of women referred by the force to be considered for domestic homicide reviews/domestic abuse related death reviews between 2019-2024
Q1 response: Please note that records commenced in March 2020 and from that time to 31st December 2024 there were 22 referrals made.
2) How many of the referrals identified in response to question 1 resulted in the review process being undertaken and how many did not
Q2 response: 17 went to DHR/DARDR in Warwickshire, 2 were adopted by other CSPs outside of Warwickshire and 3 did not meet the DHR criteria.
3) For each death identified in response to question 1, please provide the number of DASH assessments completed by the force in relation to the deceased prior to their death and the risk level identified in each assessment
Q3 response: Please note that we moved from DASH to DARA (Domestic Abuse Risk Assessment) in October 2022. 66 DA risk assessments (DASH/DARA) were completed in relation to those individuals, broken down as follows:
Standard Risk – 9
Medium Risk – 44
High – 13
4) For each death identified in response to question 1, please provide the number of occasions on which the deceased was discussed at the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference/High Risk Daily Meeting/Daily Risk Assessment Management Meeting or equivalent meeting prior to their death.
Q4 response: Of the individuals included in the response to Q1, 5 were discussed at MARAC 13 times (one of those was in another force area).
We cannot answer if the individuals ever had risk assessments or were heard at MARAC in another force area unless stated.
I write in connection with your further request for information which was received on 25th April 2025 as follows:
Thank you very much for this response [FOI-261-2025]. As the request asked for the information for each death identified in question 1, are you able to provide the information in a format such as the below which breaks it down by case?
The below is extracted from a response provided by another force to the same request. Several other forces have been able to provide the information in this or a comparable format.
|
1. Female Identification Number |
2. Considered for DHR? Y/N |
3. DASH & level |
DASH & level |
DASH & level |
DASH & level |
DASH & level |
DASH total |
No of times referred to Marac |
|
1 |
Y |
High |
Standard |
High |
Standard |
Standard |
5 |
2 |
If you need to process the above as a new FOI request, please do so.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below. Please note that the order in which the cases have been listed does not run chronologically through the time period but, rather, have been provided based on the total number of assessments running from the lowest to the highest.
Response:
|
Female Identification Number |
Standard Risk Assessment |
Medium Risk Assessment |
High Risk Assessment |
DASH total |
No of times referred to MARAC |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
*7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
*8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
**9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
**10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
11 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
12 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
13 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
*14 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
15 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
|
16 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
|
17 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
|
18 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
2*** |
|
19 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
1 |
|
20 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
0 |
|
21 |
1 |
8 |
1 |
10 |
0 |
|
22 |
0 |
13 |
5 |
18 |
8 |
*did not proceed to DHR/DARDR.
**DHR/DARDR undertaken by another force area. We cannot answer if risk assessments were carried out or were heard at MARAC in another force area unless stated.
***once in Warwickshire and once in another force area.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB