The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 introduced a requirement on the police, local authorities & clinical commissioning groups in England to review the circumstances of certain homicides where the victim was aged 18 or over, and the events surrounding their death involved, or were likely to have involved the use of an offensive weapon.
The purpose of these reviews is to ensure that when a qualifying homicide takes place, local partners identify the lessons to be learnt from the death, to consider whether any action should be taken as a result, and to share the outcome. The intention is that these new reviews will improve the national and local understanding of what causes homicide and serious violence, better equipping services to prevent weapons-enabled homicides, and in so doing, save lives.
Currently there are pilots being conducted across various local authority areas in England and Wales. Once these pilots have been completed there will be a commencement of these reviews in all parts of the Country including here in Shropshire. This page will be updated when this happens.