The new police chief in charge of the Jersey child abuse probe ruled out murder today as he expressed “much regret” at inaccurate information provided by his predecessors.

Police in Jersey are to investigate claims that a man was abused in three children’s homes in the Channel Islands, including the notorious “house of horrors” Haut de la Garenne.

Hi-tech military radar equipment is being used today in the search for more bodies at a former care home where human remains were found buried in a stairwell.