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| 'Significant' find in Jersey home | 'Significant' find in Jersey home |
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| Police searching a former children's home following child abuse allegations say they have discovered "a couple of finds of some significance". | Police searching a former children's home following child abuse allegations say they have discovered "a couple of finds of some significance". |
| The finds were made in a cellar under Haut de la Garenne in Jersey, where 160 people have said they were abused. | The finds were made in a cellar under Haut de la Garenne in Jersey, where 160 people have said they were abused. |
| Lenny Harper, Jersey's deputy police chief, said: "They are items which witnesses have said were in there when offences were committed against them." | Lenny Harper, Jersey's deputy police chief, said: "They are items which witnesses have said were in there when offences were committed against them." |
| On Saturday a child's skull was discovered on the premises. | On Saturday a child's skull was discovered on the premises. |
| Underground room | |
| Search teams have been digging turf around the home's grounds which they believe may have been disturbed. | |
| Mr Harper said the finds were made in a bricked-up cellar - one of three underground rooms being investigated by officers at the home. | |
| He told reporters that the two items discovered would "tend to provide corroboration for some of the allegations which we have received about offences that were committed". | |
| But no further human remains had been found, he added. | |
| A sniffer dog reacted "strongly" when it entered the room on Wednesday, according to officers. | |
| A forensic archaeologist has been sifting through large piles of rubble and soil in the cellar. | |
| Mr Harper said a second underground room adjoining the first had still to be searched. It is understood to be the same size as the first - about 12ft square and 8ft high - and also bricked up. | |
| And a former member of staff at the home who contacted police about a third underground room - unconnected with the first two cellars - will be asked to help officers locate it. | |
| The former employee added that the third cellar was not part of the main building and was used as a store room, a police spokesman said. |