Two more cellars allegedly used as punishment rooms where children were physically and sexually abused have been discovered at a Jersey care home.

Detectives said that a victim had come forward in recent days to describe being abused in one of the rooms at the Haut de la Garenne home.

Search teams will enter the cellars only after completing examinations of two connected rooms where officers have found evidence to support claims that the rooms were used as torture chambers. More than 100 former residents have told police that they were subject to abuse by carers and outsiders at the home between the 1960s and its closure in 1986.

Lenny Harper, deputy chief officer of Jersey Police, said: “We have received evidence from another victim over the last few days which tells of abuse in one of these two new rooms. We can confirm that a number of items have been recovered from cellar rooms 1 and 2, which tend to corroborate the statements of victims.”

The first two rooms were discovered behind a bricked-up doorway on the outside of the home. A trapdoor had been created to provide access to the cellar from inside the home.

The first room, about 12ft square, contained a concrete bath and a pair of shackles. On a pillar were written the words: “I’ve been bad 4 years & years.” In the second room a sniffer dog indicated the possible presence of human remains.

Mr Harper said: “Away from Haut de la Garenne, the inquiry team are continuing work and seeing victims and witnesses. More information has been received about the abuse that went on in the cellar.”

Police are waiting for the results of carbon dating tests on a fragment of a child’s skull found buried at the home.

“Initial tests are inconclusive and more sensitive tests will be carried out,” said Mr Harper. “All we can say at the moment is that the skull fragment was placed in the location no earlier than the 1920s.”

Detectives are investigating the disappearance of a girl at Haut de la Garenne as a possible murder inquiry.

Meanwhile, two firms of solicitors — Ozannes in Jersey and Dyer Burdett & Co (DBC) in Havant, Hampshire — have set up a legal team to advise victims of abuse at the home over possible claims for compensation.

DBC is representing 18 people who were allegedly physically and sexually abused while in the care of Portsmouth Corporation during the 1950s and 1960s. The firm is investigating reports of a link between the Portsmouth cases and Haut de la Garenne.

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