Päätin vilkaista mitä briteissä kirjoitellaan, koska Suomeen asti uutisointi on melko hajanaista.
"Jersey Tip-Off Reveals Lime-Filled Pits
Updated:13:53, Wednesday April 16, 2008
Mystery lime-filled pits are being excavated at the former Jersey care home where the remains of a child were found.
The new digging started after a member of the public contacted the inquiry team at Haut de la Garenne to report that he was asked to dig two pits at the site some 30 years ago.
He told Jersey police that when he asked what they were for, care staff told him "it was none of his concern".
When he returned the following day he was ordered to fill in the holes he had dug.
Following his tip-off, a police spokeswoman said forensic teams had since excavated one pit and were working on the second.
n February, fragments of a child's skull were found at Haut de la Garenne, which was a children's home from the 1960s until it closed in 1986.
There was also a large quantity of lime found in the stairwell where the skull fragment was found.
Archaeologists who carried out tests said the lime had broken down the collagen in the the bone, making it impossible to know how, when or where the child died.
The home is at the centre of one of Britain's biggest ever abuse investigations with more than 100 people claiming they were assaulted there since the 1960s.
Police have excavated a network of underground chambers, finding items including shackles and a bath which they say may corroborate claims from victims who talk of punishment rooms."
Updated:20:20, Friday April 18, 2008
"...A number of bloodstained items have been found in two secret underground chambers at a former children's home in Jersey, police say..."
"The rooms have been referred to as "punishment rooms" by victims who claim they were physically and sexually abused.
Deputy Police chief Lenny Harper said that at this stage it was not clear if the items - details of which have not been released - had an innocent explanation..."
"...Teams investigating the site initially uncovered two secret underground chambers where victims said they were kept in solitary confinement.
A further two secret rooms were subsequently found.
In the first cellar searched, police found shackles and blood spots in a bath..."
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,, ... 52,00.html
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"Bloody items found in Jersey home
Police investigating alleged abuse at a Jersey children's home say they have found blood-stained items in two secret underground chambers.
The discoveries were made at Haut de la Garenne, the former children's home where 100 people say they were abused.
Officers were searching the last of four cellars referred to as "punishment rooms" by people who claim they were physically and sexually abused.
Police say a skull fragment found in February probably pre-dates 1940.
However, they said their investigation remained a possible murder inquiry.
Meanwhile, Deputy Police Chief Lenny Harper said it was not clear at this stage whether there was an innocent explanation for the bloodied items, details of which have not been released.
He said: "In the last few days in cellars three and four we've found a number of blood-stained items.
"I would hesitate to assign a sinister motive to those, we just don't know, there may possibly be an innocent explanation for them.
Covert investigation
"But the fact remains that, with the dogs' assistance and the good work of the forensic examiners, we are still finding items which are of possible significance to the inquiry so it must go on."
A major child abuse investigation is under way at Haut de la Garenne.
Scores of people have alleged that they were sexually and physically abused there as children.
In 2006, officers began covertly investigating claims of sexual and physical abuse of children dating back to the 1960s at Haut de la Garenne, following allegations by former residents.
The investigation was stepped up in February after police found the partial remains of a child's skull buried in concrete in a stairwell.
Continued excavation
Police are continuing to excavate a network of four underground rooms which have been uncovered.
They have found a number of items, including shackles and a bath, which they say corroborate claims from victims.
One person has been charged in connection with allegations of abuse at the former children's home.
The home's former warder, Gordon Claude Wateridge, 76, has been charged with three offences of indecent assault on girls aged under 16 between 1969 and 1979.
He has appeared before St Helier Magistrates' Court and was released on conditional bail until 12 May.
However, there are believed to be more than 40 suspects in the overall inquiry."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/7355180.stm
..."Tests on the skull, which was buried under a stairwell, were unable to identify the child but revealed that the bone was placed at that location no earlier than the 1920s...."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770
Suomeksi joitain pääkohtia:
Ilmiannon perusteella on löydetty kaksi n.30-vuotta sitten kaivettua ja peitettyä monttua, joista toinen on jo avattu uudelleen ja löydetty pohjalta suuri määrä limettiä, joka taasen tuhoaa luun kollageeniä siten ettei luusta voida päätellä kuolintapaa tai aikaa. Luita montussa ei ollut.
Limettiä löytyi myös portaiden alta kaivetun pääkallon palasen yhteydessä, minkä vuoksi tarkkaa kuolinaikaa on mahdoton sanoa, mutta se ajoittuu todennäköisimmin ajankohdalle 1920-1940. Lastenkotinahan paikka toimi 1960-luvulta eteenpäin.
Yhdestä kellarin kammiosta löytyivät kahleet sekä veritahroja ja aiemmin on löytynyt muitakin verijälkiä sekä yksi epämääräinen luunpalanen, josta ei vielä osata sanoa kuuluiko se ihmiselle vai eläimelle ja siis myös nuo maitohampaat.
Murhatutkimushaaraa pidetään yhä auki ja esim. tuo toinen monttuhan on kait vieläkin avaamatta, mutta vastoin aiempaa uutisointia vahvistuneita ihmisruumiinjäänteitä ei ole kallon palasta enempää ja se ajoittuu eri aikakaudelle. Sikäli outoa että kuitenkin senkin yhteydessä löytyi limettiä, jota oli myös ainakin toisessa 30-40 vuotta myöhemmin kaivetussa kuopassa.
Karuja ja epäilyttäviä löytöjä joka tapauksessa, mutta näyttöä murhista ei oikein ole vielä löytynyt.
