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CHILDREN from the Jersey House of Horrors were loaned to rich paedophile yachtsmen
as galley SEX SLAVES, a News of the World investigation reveals.
The youngsters were told by care staff the boat rides were treats—only to be
assaulted and RAPED at sea by pervert toffs.
Details of the sick attacks emerged as we discovered even more blood has been found in a bath in the dungeon underneath the Haut de la Garenne home—and in the drains.
UNDER THREAT: Ministers voted to have investigator Harper taken off case
And our reporters have been told how builders on renovations at the home were urged by staff to BURN any bones they dug up.
We also uncover the full extent of the dark forces of corruption hampering the police investigation.
We can reveal worried cops feel under so much pressure over the abuse allegations they are preparing to BYPASS Jersey's own legal system and hand their evidence to our government.
This could include files on up to seven social workers and carers who worked at the sinister home—including one nicknamed the ‘pinball wizard' who HURLED kids against the walls to see how far they would BOUNCE.
At least two previous senior employees of children's services on the island are also under investigation despite the attempts of corrupt former policemen, politicians and businessmen to scupper the inquiry.
We understand that two weeks ago Jersey ministers SECRETLY VOTED to have senior police investigator Lenny Harper removed from the case because they believed he was too open with the media. But the Chief of Police Graham Power refused.
Explosive
A source told us: "Such important figures have been implicated in the cover-up
of abuse on the island that the cops feel the evidence should now be passed
to the British government
"The latest revelations are explosive. It is going to cause massive waves within the political and legal world and could bring the whole of Jersey's infrastructure crashing down."
One of the most serious lines of inquiry in the investigation is that children were regularly loaned to wealthy yachtsmen to "do with them what they chose for the day," according to our source close to the investigation.
Haut de la Garenne staff described the trips as a treat for children who spent long hours cooped up at the home. But in reality the kids were subjected to the vilest sexual abuse on board the luxury boats.
Our source said: "The allegations about the yachting community have come in from a number of different people. It is a very strong line of inquiry and when the evidence is made public people will be horrified."
Meanwhile about a dozen bones found at the home have been sent to a DNA lab to find out how old they are —yet some bone fragments were too burnt to be tested.
Police have taken statements from local builders who were told: "If you find bones, get rid of them or burn them." New blood spots have been discovered in cracks in a concrete bath in the underground chamber and have also been sent for tests and sniffer dogs trained to find blood have found scents in the drains underneath.
Forensic officers are now focusing on the wooden trapdoor leading to a second torture cellar in a bid to extract DNA or fingerprints.
Our source said: "Detectives are doing everything they can to ensure every scrap of evidence is properly investigated. They are very aware that the home dates back to 1856 and some of these bones could be very old.
"This is going to be a long process but the officers have been presented with so many accounts of abuse and cover-ups it is crucial we get answers. People disclosing the abuse have been easy to ignore but finally they are getting a chance to be taken seriously."
The horrors being uncovered at Haut de la Garenne have revealed a Jersey tourists have never seen.
Former abused care home residents claim what happened to them has been covered up by those in high office, desperate not to tarnish Jersey's good name or risk politicians in London reducing their power over the tiny, but extremely wealthy, island.
Although Jersey is part of the British Isles and under the Queen's rule, it has a separate government system dating back to King John's reign, and makes its own rules and laws.
Jersey's 53-member parliament has no political parties. Its politicians, judges, policemen and business leaders come from a small elite—often linked by friendship or family.
The island's equivalent of our Commons Speaker is also its top judge—so the system of checks and balances between politics and the law we have in the UK is almost non-existent.
This is a place where the authorities allowed 43-year-old convicted paedophile Roger Holland to stand for election as an honorary constable officer— similar to a special cop in the UK, but with more powers. They knew that six years earlier he had indecently assaulted a mentally impaired 14-year-old girl and admitted molesting another girl. But he got the job and in 1997 rose to become vingtenier—the second most senior cop on the island's volunteer force.
In 2001 he was jailed for indecently assaulting a young girl in the back of a police van.
"Jersey has for too long been a law unto itself—it is time the truth came out," says our source.
Among those fighting for that is ex-health minister Senator Stuart Syvret, who resigned over the cover-up and has given statements to police claiming two senior legal figures were involved in the abuse.
Mr Syvret said: "I have given formal statements to the police concerning a number of establishment individuals. Officers I have spoken to are from a force external to Jersey police at the request of Jersey police." Solicitor Nick le Cornu is also demanding change. "Jersey's political class have for 60 years been ignoring and covering up poverty and injustice," he claimed.
Police investigator Lenny Harper, an outsider from Northern Ireland, was the target of a hate campaign— including threats to torch his house —after a string of cops were sacked for corruption. Colleagues say Harper, 56, laughed it off, saying: "I had the IRA on my tail for years—so a few disgruntled people are not going to deter me from doing my job."
Now he's facing the biggest test of his career—on the island of fear.
The States of Jersey's chief minister, Frank Walker, has denied any cover-up in tackling the allegations.
Meanwhile, police have released photographs of the examination of a cellar at the former home.
The rally, which was also billed as a vigil for the alleged victims, was organised by a group calling itself Time for Change.
It comes after revelations about historic child abuse at Haut de la Garenne and other care institutions in Jersey.
'Political class'
There have been allegations of a "cover-up" by the local authorities but police say there is no evidence to support them.
Rally organiser Nick le Cornu said the rally was being held to break the "culture of silence" and to urge political change.
He called for judges from the UK to conduct an independent inquiry into the handling of the abuse claims.
The culture of silence prevents people from actually speaking and telling the truth, said Nick le Cornu, Rally organiser
Island's 'culture of secrecy'
He told the BBC: "This crisis indicts the whole political class on this island.
"The culture of silence prevents people from actually speaking and telling the truth, and saying how they feel about their government and the kind of government we should have."
Mr Walker said that "whilst it is good for those deeply affected by recent events to have an opportunity to express their emotions, it is clear by the exceedingly low turnout in the Royal Square... that the Jersey public recognised that organisers were attempting to use this tragedy to their own political advantage.
"My hope is that the people of Jersey will now come together to fully support the police investigation and the victims.
"We need to bring the guilty to justice and to care for all those whose lives have been damaged by their treatment in the past."
Boards were available for people to write views on
Up to 300 people gathered outside the States of Jersey building in the capital St Helier.
Many of the crowd were wearing daffodils in their lapels as a sign of hope, while being angry and shocked at alleged abuse at Haut de la Garenne.
White boards were positioned in the square for people to air their views on. Among many calls for resignations, there were expressions of shock at the alleged abuse.
Giffard Oubin, now 73, told the crowd how he was beaten and bullied by the older boys at the home during the 1940s.
He told BBC News the older boys were supposed to be looking after them in return for free board and lodging, and he was "one of the vulnerable ones they picked on".
"They used to wrap wires round our legs and attach them to a generator and give us electric shocks," he said.
"We were given numbers instead of names and if we got ill we were sent to the boot room and beaten."
He said the punishments were "for nothing at all" and "it was just to give them kicks".
Roy le Hérissier, a States of Jersey deputy, said of the rally: "I don't think it will change things immediately, but I think it will have an impact.
"Because I think what it shows is that the ordinary people of Jersey are pretty angry about what has gone on."
A forensic specialist examined the cellar at Haut de la Garenne
The police search at Haut de la Garenne has entered its third week.
Officers have finished clearing rubble from the first cellar.
Sniffer dogs detected two spots of what is said to be human blood and police hope to extract a DNA profile.
The police investigation, which began covertly in 2006, led to the discovery of part of a child's skull last month in a stairwell at the back of the building.
The remains are thought to date from the early 1980s. Police have not said whether they are male or female.
Some 25 people are suspected of having taken part in sexual and physical assaults at the home dating back to the 1960s.
Investigators say there are more than 40 suspects in the inquiry overall and 262 more phone calls relating to allegations of abuse are still being processed.
The children's home closed in 1986 and was later converted into a youth hostel.
Cellars at Haut de la Garenne are being examined by forensic experts
Tests are being carried out on more bones found at the former children's home
at the centre of a major child abuse investigation in Jersey.
Police say the remains, discovered by forensic archaeologists at Haut de la Garenne, could turn out to be animal.
It comes as police say they are poised to make as many as three arrests in the case, either in Jersey or the UK.
They say 100 people claim to have been abused at Haut de la Garenne, where a child's remains were found in February.
Police spokewoman Louise Nibbs said the bones, recovered during searches of the cellar and a field behind the building, were "quite likely" to turn out to be from cattle.
'Graphic account'
A police team is investigating claims of abuse at the home stretching back decades after dozens of people came forward claiming to be victims.
Claims of abuse at the home over 30 years are being investigated
Jersey's Deputy Chief Police Officer, Lenny Harper, has said he is concerned by one particular account of an incident in the 1970s, during which is it feared a child may have died.
He told reporters: "We have a particularly graphic account of an incident which still causes us concern.
"We can't say a person definitely died but if you look at it you have to think there is a possibility that the person died - that, followed by the fact that this person was never seen again."
He said police had also received accounts of children being forced to watch other children being abused and were looking into claims of abuse taking place during day trips.
Second cellar
The police search at Haut de la Garenne is now in its third week.
Officers have finished clearing rubble from the first cellar and are planning to start on a second bricked up chamber early next week.
Last week sniffer dogs detected two spots of what is said to be human blood and police hope to extract a DNA profile.
The police investigation, which began covertly in 2006, led to the discovery of part of a child's skull last month in a stairwell at the back of the building.
The remains are thought to date from the early 1980s. Police have not said whether they are male or female.
Some 25 people are suspected of having taken part in sexual and physical assaults at the home dating back to the 1960s.
Investigators say there are more than 40 suspects in the inquiry overall and 262 more phone calls relating to allegations of abuse are still being processed.
The children's home closed in 1986 and was later converted into a youth hostel.
Police are already examining an underground chamber at the site
Specialist officers at Scotland Yard are to advise the detective leading the
Jersey care home abuse inquiry.
Deputy police chief Lenny Harper will meet detectives with experience of major
investigations who are helping the inquiry, in London.
Search teams are continuing to clear rubble from the second of four underground chambers.
More than 100 people claim to have been abused at the Haut de la Garenne care home during the 1970s and 1980s.
A spokeswoman for Jersey Police said the London detectives had been advising on issues of best practice in conducting the investigation.
Mr Harper has said the home, which is now a youth hostel, would continue to be treated as a major crime scene, and the operation may become a murder inquiry.
But he said there was as yet no firm evidence that a murder had taken place at the former home.
'Good progress'
A specialist sniffer dog, trained to search for blood and human remains, has given no further positive reactions since being sent into the second room on Monday afternoon.
The second chamber, which is no more than 5ft high, (1m50) is three times the size of the room where police found a large concrete bath and another item, believed to be shackles.
There may be up to four rooms to be excavated, all of which were bricked up from the outside and none of which appeared in original plans of the building.
Police have already found a child's skull and other bone fragments which may be human on the site.
Detectives say they are making "good progress" in working through
a backlog of documents linked to the investigation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/7286850.stm
The man leading the investigation into alleged abuse at a former children's home in Jersey says retired officers have tried to obstruct the inquiry. Deputy Chief Officer Lenny Harper told the BBC some had attempted to cover up their own failure to investigate complaints of child abuse.
He said his priority remained the alleged victims, but he would also look into complaints against the police.
More than 100 people claim to have been abused there in the 1970s and 1980s.
Up to 25 people are suspected of having taken part in sexual and physical assaults at the Haut de la Garenne children's home dating back to the 1960s.
The police investigation, which began covertly in 2006, led to the discovery of part of a child's skull last month in a stairwell at the back of the building.
The remains are thought to date from the early 1980s. Police have not said whether they are male or female.
The children's home closed in 1986 and was later converted into a youth hostel.
by Diane Simon
POLICE investigations at Haut de la Garenne continue today, just over a fortnight after they started digging around the site.
Senior investigating officer Lenny Harper said work was continuing as normal – and that there was nothing to suggest that the skull fragment found ten days ago was thousands of years old.
The police arrived at the site just over a fortnight ago, and have worked from 7 am to 11 pm every day since.
Mr Harper – who this morning has become the full-time head of the Haut de la Garenne abuse inquiry and has given up his other duties as deputy police chief – said rumours that the skull fragment had already been found to be Neolithic were wrong.
Published 5/3/2008
Pamela's story : I was drugged, beaten and sexually abused ..what went on there was cruel, sadistic, evil
A woman who spent her early teens at the Jersey children's home yesterday told how she used to be drugged, beaten and sexually abused there. Mum-of-two Pamela, now 49, spoke out after it emerged that ankle shackles, stocks and canes had been found at Haut de la Garenne, once home to 1,000 vulnerable children. Pamela said that every night staff pulled cowering children from their beds and battered and raped them. She added: "The things that happened there are indescribable, the most cruel, sadistic and evil acts you could think of." She was among victims who have spoken out after a child's skull was found under a concrete floor at the home - known locally as Colditz.
Police fear more bodies may be buried there and six search areas have been pinpointed by a dog trained to sniff out human remains. Yesterday builder Robert Boutillier said: "We found some shackles lying around the grounds. "They were for children's ankles, you could see that. We also found a pile of about five large canes."
The courts sent Pamela to the home when she was 13 because her mother was violent towards her. She tried to escape several times and was seen as a "troublesome" child and given Valium to kill her spirit. She spent her time in dazed confusion. Her memories are hard to cope with but she believes that it was in this blurred state that she was violated.
She said staff were "predators". They would throw parties and invite outsiders. Pamela recalls: "We would try and lie still in our beds and not attract attention. They came and got kids and took them away for a while. Rape was rife in all ages, both boys and girls."
The teenagers would get cigarettes and booze from staff in exchange for sex. Pamela was regularly locked naked in a 10ft sq punishment cell for days for end. She was groped and beaten by a frightening 6ft man she believes was the home's deputy head, now dead. She said: "He was always sweaty and smelt of beer.
He would touch me sexually. He would slam me against a wall and say things like 'you're developing into a nice little woman, aren't you?'"
Male and female staff would abuse the children, grabbing their breasts or privates or spitting on them. Kids were encouraged to rape each other. Pamela said: What makes it worse is these acts were practiced on vulnerable and often troubled children with nowhere to go and nobody to turn to."
Pamela, who still lives in Jersey, has scars from where she cut herself in the hope it would end her torment.
She added: "I have blurry memories that still disturb me. I was stripped and male staff put their hands between my legs and held my breasts."
The staff took their favourites alone to beauty spots. One lad, Paul Fossey, was befriended by a priest. Pamela recalls: "He came to the home and told Paul he'd teach him to swim. They'd go out all day. But something happened. Paul changed. He became moody. He was never the same." He died from a heroin overdose five years ago.
Children would disappear and staff would say they had gone to a family or emigrated. No one would hear from them again. Pamela said: "If you kept asking where they had gone they would get angry. You kept your head down."
Pamela blew the whistle in 1974 but no one listened. A year later she was moved to a psychiatric unit and left when she was 16. Yesterday a card left with flowers at the local church read: "We children of Haut de la Garenne have waited a long time. We knew one day someone would listen."
Union worker Peter Hannaford, who grew up at the home, said he was abused almost every night. Peter, 59, said: "I was scared to go to bed. The abuse was anything from rape to torture. "It was men and women who abused us. It was dark so you would never know who it was."
Peter, who spent the first 12 years of his life at Haut de la Garenne, added: "You were threatened with punishment if you said anything, which could be a whip or anything." He said it has traumatised him and called for the building to be flattened. He added: "When all this came out it really tore me apart and brought back a hell of memories. You would be sleeping then your arms would be held down... Most of the time it was the other kids, encouraged by the staff. It was all the time, it was every night."
Married businessman John tried to kill himself after being sexually assaulted and beaten. He spent two years of hell at the home in the mid-1960s from the age of 12. John, 54, said: "It was just one long nightmare. "I was frightened to death most of the time."
He tried to escape and attempted suicide twice. He recalls being made to bathe with male friends every night. John added: "After drying ourselves, we were all made to stand in a line, naked," he said. Then predatory male staff would move on them. "He would walk along, inspecting our genitals, touching us. If any of us flinched, or tried to cover up, he would hit us across our privates with his stick.
Cyril Turner, 48, had been at the home for two weeks in the early 1970s when,
as a 13-year-old, he jumped from a second-floor window to escape the regime
of violence and fear. He said: "Some kids you saw again and some you wouldn't
- we never really knew what happened to them. We were told a lot of them had
run off and emigrated, which looking back was a bit odd. We were quite often
given dead arms and dead legs by the staff. I remember being frog-marched around
the place. If you were bad, you would get locked in a dark room with just bread
and water. A lot of the staff there would be very physical - kids were thrown
round a lot."
For a vulnerable, bewildered child, it must have been terrifying. Already alone in a scary place, he was then locked in a cold, dark cell and kept alone for two months. The appalling treatment is revealed in papers seen by a politician turned whistleblower. Nothing else is known of the victim, not even if he got out alive from fortresslike Haut de la Garenne.
Such stories of cruelty have remained hidden, despite years of rumour. Former residents claim they were savagely beaten, indecently assaulted or raped by staff. Others say floggings and punches to the head were common.
It has also emerged that in 1966 a 14-year-old hanged himself to escape the suffering.
Police now fear the abuse could date to the 40s after the Victorian building, used as a signal station by Nazi occupiers in the Second World War, became a children's home. For years it seemed the Jersey authorities were determined to hush it up.
But in September last year William Emslie, a social worker who had worked with youngsters who had lived at Haut de La Garenne before it closed in 1986, spoke out.
He was not the only one. Senator Stuart Syvret, Jersey's ex-minister for health and social services, was sacked last year after voicing concerns about children's services. He claimed violent abuse in homes had gone on for 60 years, adding: Documents show children were in solitary for weeks. One for two months. "Two Haut de la Garenne victims told me of floggings, solitary confinement and of sexual abuse. Cover-ups go to the top."
He was vindicated last November when more than 140 people told an inquiry of
harrowing experiences at the home.
Michael O'Connell had told best friend Terence Bizouarn in 1966 he would kill himself rather than return to Jersey's Haut de la Garenne - and he took his own life four days later.
Dulcie De La Haye, who was looking after Michael with her husband Donald, said last night: "He hated it there. He told me of a windowless room where he was locked up for 24 hours.
"I will speak to the police if they want to know about Michael."
More than 160 former residents of the home have come forward to give accounts of torture and sexual abuse.
Yesterday a photograph emerged of a summer fete at the home which showed two young semi-naked children wearing nothing more than fig leafs.
Jersey Health minister Ben Shenton vowed to "leave no stone unturned in
our pursuit of any wrongdoing".
Further pieces of bone have reportedly been unearthed by forensic teams at a former Jersey care home where it is claimed children were raped and flogged.
The fragments have been found at Haut de la Garenne as police complete their search of an underground chamber at the home and the fields surrounding it, the Sunday Telegraph has reported.
Earlier, sorrow for the victims of alleged child abuse and anger at a claimed "culture of secrecy" on the island brought residents out on to the streets. The crowd laid daffodils at the door of the government building, both as symbol of hope for the future and to represent lives shattered by abuse.
Several hundred people gathered in Royal Square, St Helier, outside the main government building to voice their support for those alleging abuse at Haut de la Garenne and to call for political change.
Former residents of the home, many of whom found their memories too painful to speak about, stood in the crowd. A number wept silently as they listened to speakers from the newly formed Time 4 Change, a group calling for an end to what they say is "a culture of secrecy" in Jersey.
The bones, which are believed to be human remains, add to the grim discovery two weeks ago of the partial remains of a child buried in a stairwell.
Tests will have to be run on the bones before officers can confirm if they were human. Officers are also waiting for the analysis of blood spots found on Friday on a concrete bath in the same cellar.
Police are reportedly now poised to make three arrests in the next two weeks, two in Jersey and one in the UK mainland.
The man leading the investigation, Jersey's deputy chief officer Lenny Harper, told the newspaper that police are concerned that one incident could have lead to the death of a child.
Officers also fear, reports the newspaper, that bones could have been removed from the home as recently as five years ago, either accidentally or in a deliberate attempt by perpetrators to cover their tracks.
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THERE is no evidence of children in care in Jersey being at risk today, a UK expert carrying out an independent review of current child protection services said yesterday.
A new post of Minister for Children should be created, however, former Devon Social Services director Alan Williamson told a press conference at St Paul’s Centre as he presented his interim report.
And Jersey’s current child protection provision would score a 2 on a scale of 1 to 4, said Mr Williamson, who revealed yesterday that he is likely to recommend that a single minister have responsibility for the welfare of children and the services designed to protect them.
Mr Williamson said that the current childcare services in the Island would
probably be ranked as mid-range in comparison to those available in the UK.
TRACES of blood are believed to have been found on the bath in the hidden cellar at Haut de la Garenne.
It was in that cellar that alleged victims of child abuse have claimed that they were subjected to violence as well as sexual abuse.
Speaking about the latest finds, deputy police chief Lenny Harper confirmed that Keela, the sniffer dog which identifies blood, showed great interest in two areas of the bath when she was released for the first time into the first cellar there.
Analysed
‘We are pretty confident that Keela is indicating she has found blood, but until those samples are analysed it is not possible to confirm that,’ he said.
THE foster daughter of the man who ran Haut de la Garenne in the 1960s claims that he raped her when was ten.
Tina Blee, who was in Jersey yesterday, hopes that her visit will give other victims the strength to break decades of silence and speak out.
Now aged 38, she was just six when Colin Tillbrook, the former superintendent at Haut de la Garenne, and his wife gave her a home.
After leaving Jersey, Mr Tillbrook, who died 20 years ago, took up a position
with Dorset Social Services as an officer vetting children’s homes. It was he
while worked in Dorset that Ms Blee was fostered and when she says that he abused
her and had sex with her.
WORK to gain entry into the second bricked-up cellar at Haut de la Garenne by forensic specialists could begin tomorrow.
Police confirmed today that a team would continue working at the site over the weekend and, if the search of the first cellar is completed, they will begin attempts to get inside the second underground room.
And police have also said today that they could start making arrests in the case in the next two weeks.
Press officer Baxter Provan told the JEP that there was still some work to be carried out today in the clearance of the first cellar.
A MAN who spent two years at Haut de la Garenne says no abuse of children took place there.
Pete Carré, who lived at the children’s home from 1963 to 1965, said that he was shocked by allegations that rape and abuse at Haut de la Garenne was widespread.
He said that if abuse had taken place at the St Martin home then he would have known about it.
The 57-year-old Guernsey resident also claims that his best friend, who spent seven years at Haut de la Garenne, was equally surprised by many of the claims of former residents in recent weeks.
STAFF at Haut de la Garenne covered up suicides during the 1960s, it has been claimed.
Carl Denning (49), who now lives in Wales, says that two of his friends hanged themselves between 1964 and 1965 after being kept in a ‘detention cell’ at the former children’s home.
Mr Denning also says that two other boys whom he did not know killed themselves at Haut de la Garenne.
It is not clear whether one of those boys was Michael O’Connell (14), who hanged himself in 1966 after repeatedly claiming that he did not want to remain at the care home.
Mr Denning, who was taken to the children’s home from Guernsey to escape his abusive parents, said that the police were never told about the deaths.
I AM absolutely astonished at the attempt by the Chief Minster to publicly
castigate Senator Stuart Syvret in front of the national press within the precincts
of a public hall. What does he think he is playing at? What does the Constable
think he was doing to allow such a blatant attempt to discredit a senior politician
to take place at St Martin’s Public Hall? This smacks of connivance of the worst
sort.
Senator Walker is recently alleged to have accused Senator Syvret of attempting
to ‘shaft the Island’. Let there be no mistake, Senator Walker has now achieved
that aim without the help of Stuart Syvret. Never in all my days have I ever
seen such a public display of total unprofessional behaviour as was displayed
on television recently by the Chief Minister who was clearly intent on chairing
a kangaroo court and with his heir apparent in attendance in his aim to vilify
a politician who at the last election polled an enormous number of votes, such
is his popularity, while Senator Walker could scarcely hang on to his political
seat.
And who are these so-called aides/minders who had the temerity to attempt to
remove the Father of the House from his rightful place at the side of his accuser.
And who is Senator Walker to stop Senator Syvret from defending himself against
the allegations against him by Senator Walker? Where else in British politics
can be seen such ignominious behaviour as displayed by the Chief Minister?
Scanning equipment pinpointed suspicious spots in a field behind Haut de la Garenne children's home, where part of a child's skull was found buried last month.
Digging began, then one officer recalled filming in the field in the 1980s.
A police source said: "It was turned into a graveyard for Bergerac.
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"They used fibreglass tombstones but they were going to have a burial scene
so they also dug a number of full graves."
Bergerac, starring John Nettles, was shot on Jersey from 1971 to 1981. Haut de la Garenne, shut in 1986, was used as a set.
The source added: "The site will be dug up just in case but we know of the alternative explanation."
Bones dug up at the home this week and sent for analysis had been burned, it has emerged.
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