All domestic abuse deaths to be reviewed

[AyeRobot]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13058300

"Every domestic abuse death is to be automatically reviewed in England and Wales in an effort to make sure lessons about violence in the home are learned.

Mandatory case reviews will now be carried out by all involved agencies, including police and health services.

It follows comments from Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer that teenage women are most at risk of abuse and more must be done to tackle it."

Fingers crossed.

This could mean some effective action to prevent predictabl future violence might be taken and then where will we be?

Honestly anything to increase the general knowledge about DV, and debunk myths, is a good move. It's shocking how much misunderstanding there is about it, and what's frustrating is those who have been through it, those who work with people who have (although misunderstandings pervade there as well - if they really listen, and see what is happening) can see the connections, the patterns, it's so clear. There is a wealth of information even just somewhere like mumsnet. I expect if someone cared to trawl through the archive of posts which mention DV they would find patterns just from people seeking support on a talk board!

I think these investigation could be a fantastic and very very valuable first step into understanding how DV escalates. I'd love to get involved in something like this, preventing it by seeing the patterns. Maybe when I graduate

I wish more women didn't have to die to provide this information though :( But at least it's better than doing nothing.

I agree, BertieBotts.

Simply issuing everyone who comes into contact with DV victims with a copy of "Why Does he Do That?" would cause a massive sea-change in the way these crimes are dealt with before people are murdered. By actually dealing with them as crimes would be a start...

I think laws with regards DV, need to be thoroughly overhauled.

My children have contact with their father thro a contact centre, and the women who use the contact centre have all suffered from DV, I'm inclined to believe them as most are still terrified of their ex with no idea how to deal with the courts.

The ex's continue their abuse even at the contact centre.

The problems with DV and getting away from an perpetrator do not go away with just leaving the partner.

In my experience the partners tend to continue the abuse thro the children, by demanding unsupervised contact and treating the child badly or threatening to refuse to return the child/ren.
And CAFCASS are really really bad at handling the cases, which is terriying as a CAFCASS report is taken very seriously in court.

Also the women all end up suffeirng huge financial loss, as the abusive partners have run up debts in joint names, and against the properties in which they lived, as the women tend to be law abiding and trying to rebuild their lives the banks then chase them for the debts, which can be crippling, whereas the ex's declare themselves unemployed and too poor to repay debts or they just disappear on paper, making it difficult for banks to chase them.

I actually know one woman who fled to a womans refuge with her little baby to get away from her violent drug addict alcoholic boyfriend, when she finally got back on her feet and got a job and her own place, the banks found her and demanded repayment for the huge debts racked up aginst the former house she had shared wih her ex 9and left), she had to declare herself bankrupt in the end, it was horrible, and her ex has now got overnight contact wih their child, altho he has failed all drug tests ordered by the courts.
The ex was terrifying, he'd turn up to the contact centre less than sober and very very agressive, he'd square up to the centre staff and scream into my friends face terrifying their little son.
I actually witnessed this repeatedly, it was horrendous.

She's a strong lady tho, all kudos to her.

That's horrendous, fuzzywuzzy