children were suffering from life changing complications, life changing complications, life changing consequences from lucy letby s actions. this trial covered a period of time betweenjuly of 2015, june of 2015 and june of 2016. but we now know that there is going to be a further investigation into lucy letby s crimes, and in fact the time before she was working at the countess of chester hospital. this investigation has been widened to cover the whole of her nursing career. just in the last few moments i can tell you that the government has now ordered an independent inquiry, something the families of the victims had been calling for purely because of the period of time that it took to identify these offences and to link lucy letby as the common force among them. an inquiry has been announced, says the government, into the circumstances behind the murders and attempted murders of babies at the counter
investigation. the 22 charges put two lucy letby only spanned a period of one year of her nursing career. they were all murders or attempted murders that occurred between. that does not represent lucy letby s into her nursing career. it raises questions of course about what she was doing prior to that one year period, during periods of training or placement. we know that cheshire constabulary has been speaking more widely, we know they talked to many people who had worked with her, both in her current and previousjobs. the evidence gathering on operation hummingbird, the investigation into lucy letby s nursing career has been significant. at the height of that operation there were 70 police and civilian staff working on it. they said around 30,000 pages of evidence
to lucy letby for suggesting that she was not doing herjob properly. and that is one reason why the families in particular in this case want to see more than just this trial and these guilty verdicts they want to see an investigation. and in fact, the uk government announced not long after the conclusion of this trial that an independent inquiry would be carried out into lucy letby, into her offending to look at whether or not this was an isolated period of time, or whether in fact this would cover her whole nursing career. and also to look at how this could happen. and crucially, looking at hospitals up and down the uk, whether they are safe enough to stop something like this from happening again. the bbc s anna foster outside manchester crown court, tthank you very much. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let s look at some other news. the bbc has been told that at least 1,400 people have starved to death in ethiopia s northern region of tigray, since food aid wa