Bloodstained items found at Jersey home
Bloodstained items have been found in the cellars of a former home in Jersey at the centre of a child abuse inquiry, police said on Friday.
One in five fears for mortgage paymentAbout 160 people have said they were abused at Haut de la Garenne, which closed as a children's home in 1986.
Many have said they were abused in building's cellars.
Jersey Deputy Police Chief Lenny Harper said the items were found over the past few days, but stressed they might have an innocent explanation.
He would not elaborate on what the items were, or how many were found.
One underground chamber excavated at the house has already revealed a blood-spattered stone bathtub, apparently corroborating former residents' evidence.
Forensic teams have been excavating at the site since February, when a fragment of a human skull was found beneath a concrete floor.
Harper said it was unlikely police would start a formal homicide inquiry in relation to the skull fragment, as archaeological evidence suggested it dated to before the 1940s.
"Although no formal parameters have been placed on the enquiry, it is unlikely that we would pursue any lead which tended to take us to a period before the end of World War Two," he said in a statement.
The building first opened as an industrial school for boys in the 1850s.
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