Have let families know that in 28 days, or perhaps sooner, they will decide on whether to progress to a retrial to look at some of the cases where the jury were not able to decide upon. I think we will have to wait for that. 0bviously, decide upon. I think we will have to wait for that. Obviously, we have touched upon the fact that there is now a wider review into lucy letby s footprint, during her whole time working at Liverpool Womens and potentially early at the Countess Of Chester, so we are not clear at the moment as to where the next stage of the investigation might lead to. Dan, thank you, dan 0donoghue, who has been following this trial through out. We are bringing you all of the reaction here on bbc news. A statement hasjust been of the reaction here on bbc news. A statement has just been released by the health and social care secretary on the announcement of an inquiry, an independent inquiry that the government has said will take place, focusing on lucy letby s conduct and o
around this time, lucy letby launched a grievance procedure against the paediatricians. the internal process agreed that she had been discriminated against and victimised by the doctors on the unit. with the paediatricians wanting a police investigation in january 2017, an extraordinary board meeting was held. the medical director, ian harvey, gave a verbal report. he said external reviews had not highlighted any individual as being linked to the deaths, and that the trust was ready to draw a line under the issues. the chief executive, tony chambers, said he had met lucy letby and her parents to apologise for what had happened. a statement written by letby was read out, detailing how hard the past few months had been for her. the meeting decided lucy letby would return to the neonatal unit after the paediatricians had written a letter apologising to her. this is the letter sent to her, signed by all seven of the paediatricians. against their wishes, they apologise
interviewed a lead consultant, and he said that no one wanted to believe it, but all the evidence started to point in a direction. it must be really tough, and as you say, it is incredibly rare for this kind of case to crop up and for people in this position of caring for some of the most vulnerable babies to carry out these kind of horrific acts. but, you know, processes need to be in place so that if and when it does happen, it can be spotted early and it can be stopped before it goes too far. dominic, thank you, dominic hughes, our health correspondent outside the countess of chester hospital. we have had a statement here on bbc news, we are bringing you the statements and reaction, we heard from the court steps, we bring you those as soon as we receive them. the ministry ofjustice has released a statement specifically referring
to lucy letby s nonappearance in court. through out this trial, she was present in the dock as she listened to the evidence and witness statements, and she was also present in the dock as the first verdicts were delivered, because these have happened over a period of days. but as the final verdicts were delivered yesterday, and also today, as the jury yesterday, and also today, as the jury was discharged, she chose not to be brought up from the holding cells here at manchester crown court. she is brought from prison each day, but she decided not to come up for the conclusion of the trial. the indication is that she will also not appear when she is sentenced on monday. now, the lord chancellor says that he has been clear that he wants victims to see justice delivered and for all of those found guilty to here society s condemnation at the sentencing hearing. defendants can already be ordered by a judge to attend court with those who file facing up to two
hospital, dominic hughes, our health correspondent, is there. first of all, you were listening to that statement made by the current medical director of the hospital trust, remind us what they have said today at the conclusion of this trial. ~ , , trial. well, the first thing they said, trial. well, the first thing they said. really. trial. well, the first thing they said, really, was trial. well, the first thing they said, really, was to trial. well, the first thing they said, really, was to express i trial. well, the first thing they i said, really, was to express their thoughts, that they were with the families of the children who were murdered and seriously injured by lucy letby. the statement sort of went as far as it could come guess. i did try and throw a question to the medical director about why members of the trust seemed to protect lucy letby before she was arrested and when legitimate concerns had been raised by some of her colleagues, by the consultant paediatricians,