Police search second Jersey site

Sniffer dogs trained to detect human remains have been sent into a World War Two bunker on Jersey.

Six witnesses told police they were assaulted at the isolated bunker near former children's home Haut de la Garenne, where police are investigating allegations of child abuse.

Police launched the first part of a forensic search of the bunker after the witnesses, all former residents at the home, claimed they had been taken there by staff and abused.

Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper from States of Jersey Police said: "We have an allegation of serious sexual crimes having taken place in the bunker.

"We are talking about six witness statements to us concerning the bunker. Six different witnesses and different incidents."

Police believe the bunker contains underground rooms used during the Second World War by the occupying German forces.

They are probing about 97 allegations of abuse in Jersey and have said there are more than 100 suspects.

Officers have excavated four secret underground chambers referred to as punishment rooms by some victims, and found shackles, a bloodstained bath and children's teeth.

They have also recovered at least 30 charred human bone fragments and in one cellar found the message "I've been bad for years and years" scrawled on a wooden post.

A total of 65 milk teeth have also been removed from the cellars at Haut de la Garenne.

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