'I’m not done in Shrewsbury yet', says Michael Buchanan, who first investigated the NHS scandal.
Rhiannon Davies lost her daughter in 2009. She embraced Donna Ockenden after she published her report on Wednesday
I received a call from my brother on Monday. "Where are you?" he asked. When I told him I'd just arrived in Shrewsbury, he said: "Are you not finished there yet?" It's a reasonable question for him to ask - there aren't many stories that a news journalist continues to cover for five years. But this has not been a normal story.
As I was leaving their home, Richard asked if I would be interested in looking at the wider issues with maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford. By this point, the couple, working alongside Kayleigh and Colin Griffiths, who lost their daughter in 2016, had complied a list of 23 cases they thought displayed signs of preventable harm.
Working with a brilliant colleague, Sophie Woodcock, we spent three months investigating the trust before we did our first story. At one point we spent two days at the library in Shrewsbury going through old paper copies of the local newspaper, the Shropshire Star, to find inquests they'd reported on. We requested records from the coroner's office to find official causes of death, and I spent three days driving around Shropshire trying to find people we thought might know something.
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