A domestic homicide review (DHR) is a multi-agency review of the circumstances in which the death of a person aged 16 or over has, or appears to have, resulted from violence, abuse or neglect by either:

1. a person to whom s/he was related or with whom s/he was or had been in an intimate personal relationship
2. a member of the same household as her/himself.

They are held to identify lessons to be learnt from the death.

DHRs can also be held where a person took their own life (suicide) and the circumstances give rise to concern. For example, it emerges that there was coercive controlling behaviour in the relationship.

Domestic homicide reports