and they never got to the bottom of what was happening. but what what sir duncan nichol, the former chairman of said in a statement this morning, is that he feels that the board was misled by the by the managers of the trust and particularly refers to a document they were giving in december of 2016, in which he says that they were told explicitly there was no criminal activity pointing to any one individual when in truth, he goes on to say, the investigating neonatologist had stated that she had not had the time to complete the reviews fully know now, this is a reference to a london based neonatologist who was asked by the trust at one point to see if she could help them understand why the babies were dying. she told them explicitly that she didn't have the time to do it and it would need further investigations. but according to the statement from sir duncan nichol says this morning the board were actually told that that those reviews by her had found there was no criminal activity at all.