Children’s remains found at home

Jersey police have found the partial remains of at least five children aged between four and 11 at Haut de la Garenne, the former children's home at the centre of a child abuse investigation. But the discovery of the bone fragments is unlikely to lead to a murder inquiry because an exact date cannot be put on the remains.

Police have so far recovered a total of 65 milk teeth from Haut de la Garenne's cellars, as well as more than 100 bone fragments, including one from a child's leg and another from inside a child's ear, at the home. Experts believe the teeth could only have come out after death because of their condition.

About 100 people have made allegations of abuse at the home between the early 1960s and 1986.