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<p>The Home Office does not routinely collect data on the number of domestic abuse
victims killed by a partner previously convicted of a domestic abuse offence. However,
the Home Office has funded the Domestic Homicide and Suspected Victim Suicides Project
since 2020. This was led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the College of
Policing and hosted by the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme to monitor
domestic homicides during the pandemic to build our evidence base on domestic homicides
and domestic abuse perpetrators.</p><p>The first 12-month report was published on
25 August 2021 and includes the analysis that of the 58% of all suspects previously
known to police as suspects (133) and four-fifths (82%) were known to police for domestic
abuse offending. This was a combination of suspects known solely for domestic abuse
offending and those known for both domestic and non-domestic abuse offending. Expressed
as a proportion of the whole dataset, this means that 48% of suspects were previously
known to police for perpetrating domestic abuse.</p><p>Reducing domestic homicide
is a priority for the Home Office and as part of this in the Tackling Domestic Abuse
Plan published in March 2022, we have committed to improving our knowledge about domestic
abuse through better data. Any improvements in data on and knowledge of domestic abuse
can be fed back into the system to tailor and refine the response to domestic abuse.</p><p>The
Home Office continue to fund the Domestic Homicide Project in order to further build
the evidence base on what works to prevent domestic homicide and the second year report
will be published in Autumn 2023.</p>
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