More children's teeth found in Jersey 'house of horrors'

Jersey Police said today that detectives were waiting for the results of forensic tests on the latest two teeth.

Tests on the teeth revealed that most were "very unlikely to have come out naturally before death", a police statement said.

Two more teeth have been found during searches at the Haut de la Garenne former children's home, bringing the total to 13

It added that the teeth had come from at least two children.

Police have also recovered at least 30 charred human bone fragments.

Of the bone fragments unearthed, tests have found that some were cut while others were burnt, indicating that homicide had taken place with the victims' bodies possibly cremated in a fireplace.

A police spokeswoman said: "The sieving work continues.

"The departure date from Haut de la Garenne depends on the speed of sieving the mass of material waiting.

"This is dependent on the number of specialists available to us. There is a demand in Europe for them at present.

"There are still a number of things to be completed at the site yet and much will depend on the direction dictated by the various laboratory tests on the evidence."

Haut de la Garenne became the centre of an historic abuse inquiry in February after the discovery of what was initially believed to be part of a child's skull but was later thought to be wood or part of a coconut.

Following the find, scores of people came forward claiming they were abused at the home. Some talked of underground punishment rooms where they said they were drugged, raped and beaten.

Forensic teams subsequently uncovered a network of four secret underground chambers at the site where they found the teeth and bone fragments.

In other chambers, officers also found shackles, a blood-stained bath and the haunting message "I've been bad for years and years" scrawled on a wooden post.

Police have said there are more than 40 suspects.

Three men have been charged in connection with alleged child abuse at Haut de la Garenne.

A fourth man has also been arrested as part of the wider abuse inquiry.