the former high courtjudge sir brian langstaff, who's leading the investigation, promised it would beh, independent and would put the victims of the scandal its heart. richard lister reports. when they told me what they'd done to me, i stood on a motorway bridge to jump off it. ifeel we have been treated very badly. nobody has listened to us over the years. successive governments have failed to live up to their responsibility of what they done to us, of what they done to my family. and what they have done to my life. just some of the victims of the biggest medical disaster in nhs history, telling their stories on video at the start of the inquiry last year. now it begins its next phase, to understand the impact of this tragedy and how it happened. although it will never be possible to hear orally from everyone who would wish to be heard, those affected and infected will come first and last in the enquiry. in the 1970s and ‘80s, the nhs imported blood products from the united states. some were made with donated blood from prisoners and even drug addicts at high risk of carrying viruses

sir brian langstaff spoke of the evidence he has already read, there have been many, many hundreds oft have been submitted to this enquiry. he said some of the evidence will be harrowing, he found it incredibly moving, and sometimes even chilling. he described it as an active bravery that people had come to give evidence here and said inevitably for some people it would stir up very distressing memories. he promised, though, the victims would have a swift and enquiry as was possible in order to be thorough. we expect the enquiry to last about two yea rs. thank you very much. let's listen to derek martindale, whose blood was infected. he's the first witness speaking at the inquiry. he is speaking. he is not speaking right now, but we expect to hear from him at any moment. let's listen in and see what is happening now. that looks like a record of blood transfusions discussed. and here we have a 1984. receiving different types of blood products, nhs eight and then arm eight. and then if we go to the next page. this should come up another extract from your records, derek. next page. thank