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July 2022 - UPDATE
A Domestic Homicide Review has now started to look into the death of Tanya.
A DHR is issued as statutory guidance under section 9(3) of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (the 2004 Act)1
. The Act states:
(1) In this section “domestic homicide review” means a 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—
(a) a person to whom she was related or with whom she was or had been in an
intimate personal relationship, or
(b) a member of the same household as herself,
held with a view to identifying the lessons to be learnt from the death.
June 2022 - UPDATE
“A male” has been arrested in the case of Tanya’s death.
Due to the ongoing investigation by CID, the Coroner’s Inquest and the Domestic Homicide Review (DHR) process, the following words have been coshen carefully.
For the last two years of her life, Tanya sought help from mediators, lawyers, Thames Valley Police, Women’s Aid, DASH, Local Authority Children’s Services, a variety of NHS services, numerous Facebook groups and the Family Court.
Tanya was trying to free herself from a marriage that she described as abusive and had reported multiple types of Domestic Abuse to Thames Valley Police.
It became abundantly clear during her journey to escape, that fundamental knowledge gaps exist in the critical services that are tasked with identifying and understanding the long term effects of coercive control, emotional, psychological, economic and physical domestic abuse.
Tanya died aged 42 on the 22nd August 2021.
Tanya’s journey, her experience, and what she endured will all become public knowledge in due course, as will the identity of her abuser.
In her memory, The Tanya Vlok Foundation was formed to provide emergency funds to allow people to escape abusive relationships; and to educate society about all forms of domestic abuse, including how to identify a potentially abusive partner, the early signs of abuse, how to help someone you think is in an abusive relationship and what steps should be taken to escape the abuse.
The Foundation’s constitution states two items.
1
For the public benefit, to relieve the needs of victims of domestic abuse by the provision of financial assistance to victims of domestic abuse in all its forms to allow victims to have a safe place to live.
2
For the public benefit, to advance the education of young people in understanding what a healthy relationship looks like and how to identify traits and patterns of unhealthy and abusive relationships through providing educational programs in secondary schools.