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St Helier: A victim in the Jersey sex scandal case has been intimidated by a former care worker to stop from giving evidence, according to detectives.
The latest of what is believed to be several attempts to prevent child abusers being brought to justice allegedly took place just three days ago.
Deputy Chief Police Officer Lenny Harper, who is heading the inquiry, warned that anyone who approaches a potential witness is committing a "serious criminal offence". He said offenders would be charged with perverting the court of justice if they are caught. T
he latest incident involved the alleged intimidation of a 38-year-old male IT worker from Telford, Shropshire. A woman is said to have warned him on the phone that it was in his "best interests" to keep "a low profile".
Officers said allegations of child abuse on Jersey go up to last year. Until now, it was believed the claims related until 1986, when the Haut de la Garenne children's home was closed.
- The Telegraph Group Limited, London 2008
Torture chambers
At least four secret underground chambers are said to exist in the former children's home at the centre of the Jersey child abuse scandal, detectives have revealed.
Victims at the home, where 160 people claim they were abused, have described an underground "punishment room".
Officers have excavated one bricked up chamber at Haut de la Garenne, where former residents have said they were kept in solitary confinement, raped and beaten.
Search teams have also found an opening in the ground floor above the first cellar, which victims described as a trap door to the room.
A second chamber, yet to be broken into, is next to it and detectives disclosed on Saturday that they believe two more could be connected to that. There is also thought to be another secret underground area which they have yet to enter.
Search teams found a child's skull and remains in a stairwell in the north-west corner of the home in February.
- The Telegraph GroupLimited, London 2008
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