A couple arrested by Jersey police as part of the historic abuse inquiry will not face charges because of a lack of evidence, the island’s Attorney General said today.

The former head of the Jersey child abuse investigation tonight slammed the island’s legal system, claiming they delayed prosecutions and were held in “contempt” by victims.

Police today refused to rule out a murder inquiry into the deaths of at least five children whose charred remains were found at a former children’s home on Jersey.

Jersey police have discovered the partial remains of at least five youngsters at Haut de la Garenne, the former children’s home at the centre of the island’s child abuse investigation, it was revealed.

Evidence has been found in a Second World War bunker which “corroborates” claims by alleged child abuse victims in Jersey, detectives said today.

POLICE investigating allegations of child sex abuse on Jersey have switched their hunt for evidence to a German World War II bunker, they said yesterday.

Detectives investigating allegations of abuse at a former Jersey children’s home said new tests had proved “beyond doubt” that the remains of more than one child had been found.

Detectives investigating allegations of abuse at a former Jersey children’s home have unearthed more bone fragments and another child’s tooth, police on the island said today.

BLOODSTAINED items have been found in two underground chambers at a former children’s home in Jersey being investigated over abuse claims.

A number of bloodstained items have been found in two secret underground chambers at a former children’s home in Jersey being investigated over abuse claims, police said today.

A former worker at the Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse scandal told how she saw children “frozen with fear”.

Excavation work at a former Jersey care home at the centre of a child abuse scandal will stop today to relieve forensic teams who have been working up to 13 hours a day searching for human remains.

Police today issued a warning after investigating allegations that a former worker at the Jersey care home where where a child’s skull was found approached a victim and told them to keep quiet.

The discovery of two underground rooms at a former children’s home in Jersey has echoed the accounts of abuse from former residents.

The grim prospect of more bodies being discovered at a Jersey former children’s home was raised tonight after a search dog reacted to a hidden cellar.

A specialist search dog used by police looking for bodies at a Jersey children’s home showed an “extremely strong reaction” when it was sent into a bricked-up area of the building today, police said.

THE Ulsterman heading up the Jersey childcare probe was once involved in the fight against the IRA on the streets of Belfast.

Police will continue their excavation of a bricked-up cellar today at a Jersey youth hostel where they found a child’s skull.

Derren Brown’s Russian roulette stunt backfired on him today when police confirmed that the bullet loaded into his gun was a blank.