Body Hunt Cop Heads To UK For Help

A detective leading a child abuse probe in Jersey after a human skull was found at a former care home will meet Scotland Yard specialists today.

Deputy police chief Lenny Harper is totalk with officers who have experience of major investigations.

Some have already been helping the Haut de la Garenne care home inquiry.

His visit comes as search teams on Jersey are continuing to clear rubble from the second of four underground chambers.

A sniffer dog trained to find human remains has given a positive "indication" from the room.

Mr Harper said the home would continue to be treated as a major crime scene, and added the operation may become a murder inquiry.

But he said there was as yet no firm evidence that a murder had taken place.

Adults who lived in the home as children during the 1960s, 70s and 80s have claimed they were chained up, physically abused and raped in cellars.

More than 160 people have come forward to allege abuse at the home, which was closed in the late 1980s and is now a youth hostel.

Some 25 people are suspected of sex crimes and physical assaults, including senior members of staff and a former politician.

Detectives have said they expect to make at least two arrests linked to the investigation in the coming weeks.