Third Person Charged Over Jersey Abuse

A third man has been charged in the investigation into abuse at the former children's home at Haut de la Garenne in Jersey.

Michael Aubin, 45, who was born in Jersey and lives in Southampton, faces charges relating to three children.

Hewill appear in court on the island on Monday, the States of Jersey Police said.

He is charged with one count of sodomy against a boy and two counts of indecent assault against two other boys.

The charges relate to three separate children and are alleged to have been committed between 1977 and 1980.

A Jersey Police spokesperson said it was possible that further charges may follow.

He is the third man to be charged in connection with the ongoing historical abuse inquiry.

Gordon Claude Wateridge, 76, originally from Croydon, south London, has been charged with three offences of indecent assault on girls under 16 between 1969 and 1979.

Claude Donnelly, 68, of St Brelade, has been charged with raping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on Jersey between 1971 and 1974.

Neither man has entered a plea.

Another man has also been arrested as part of the wider abuse inquiry.

The latest arrest came as detectives said new tests had proved "beyond doubt" that the remains of more than one child have been found at Haut de la Garenne.

Expert examination of five teeth unearthed in a cellar at the former children's home over the last week revealed that most had come out after death and from at least two sources.

Police have now recovered a total of 10 teeth and at least 30 charred human bone fragments, indicating that homicide had taken place, with the victims' bodies possibly cremated in a fireplace.

The context of the finds suggests that the teeth were put in the cellar after the 1940s but detectives have yet to conclude how or why they came to be there.

Tests to age the suspected victims have so far been inconclusive, with estimates ranging from pre-Second World War to as recent as the 1970s and 1980s.