Man claims child abuse on Guernsey

Hannah Fletcher

GUERNSEY The child abuse investigation that has engulfed Jersey threatened to spill over into a second Channel Island yesterday after a man claimed that he had suffered abuse at two children’s homes in Guernsey.

Carl Denning, 49, spent six years during the 1960s at Haut de la Garenne, the former children’s home now at the centre of a major police operation.

Along with more than 160 other ex-residents, Mr Denning claims that he was physically and mentally abused at the home. But when he was 11, Mr Denning was moved to the neighbouring island of Guernsey. He stayed in two other children’s homes and claims that he and the other child residents were abused at both of them.

Mr Denning, who now lives in Dinorwig, north Wales, told The Guernsey Press and Star: “I feel like the Guernsey authorities really don’t believe what went on.”

It has been reported that Mr Denning’s allegations will be passed on to the Guernsey police.