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Home truths

Since the finding of a skull fragment at Haut de la Garenne children�s home, Jersey has been coming to terms with the realisation that systematic, brutal and endemic child abuse going back decades has been taking place on the island. Now police are closing in on up to 40 suspects, and the 160 surviving victims may finally see justice. James Cusick reports from the island

For 40 homes on the island of Jersey there will be, over the coming days, weeks and possibly months, no such thing as an ordinary knock on the front door.