Police investigating allegations of child abuse at a former children's home are expected to begin a search in a second underground room today.
Search teams are expected to begin combing the second chamber of the cellar at Haut de la Garenne, Jersey, after a specialist sniffer dog gave a positive "indication".
A handout photograph shows a forensic specialist examining the first cellar of the Haut de la Garenne Youth Hostel in Jersey. Reuters/Andy Le Gresley/Handout
The dog, trained to search for blood and human remains, was sent into the underground room yesterday, but a police spokeswoman noted the indication is close to the scene of the find in the first room.
Police entered the second room yesterday after gaining access from above.
The room is three times the size of the first, where police found blood specks in a shallow concrete bath last week.
The first room also housed an item, believed to be shackles, and a secret trapdoor entrance. On a wooden beam near the bath were scrawled the words: "I've been bad for years and years."
Elsewhere on the site, police have found a child's skull and other bone fragments that may be human.
Residents of the home have told police horrific tales of abuse carried out underground in "punishment rooms".
Adults who lived in the home as children during the 1960s, 70s and 80s have claimed they were chained up, physically abused and raped in cellars at the home.
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