Scale of homicide and suicides by domestic abuse victims revealed

New report shows scale of domestic homicides and for the first time recorded an increase in suspected suicides by domestic abuse victims.

The report examines all deaths identified by police as domestic abuse related to improve understanding of risk indicators, victim and perpetrator demographics. The unique dataset collects detailed information on these deaths not available from any other source to help police and partners improve their response to domestic abuse, domestic homicide and victim suicide following domestic abuse.