:00:14. > :00:16.A 79`year`old Jersey man has told how he was given electric shocks
:00:17. > :00:20.and had darts thrown at him when in a children's home in the 1940s.
:00:21. > :00:23.Gifford Aubin was giving evidence at the Jersey Care Inquiry today.
:00:24. > :00:27.He said the Jersey Home for Boys, which is now known as Haut de la
:00:28. > :00:35.Well, six years ago, when the scale of abuse in the care system first
:00:36. > :00:47.Christina Ghidoni takes up his story then and now.
:00:48. > :00:50.That's me there and this is my brother.
:00:51. > :00:54.2008, and as allegations of abuse at Haut de la Garenne hit the
:00:55. > :01:01.headlines, former resident Gifford Aubin told a BBC reporter about the
:01:02. > :01:04.abuse he had suffered there, usually at the hands of older boys.
:01:05. > :01:11.They did all sorts of things from putting wires on your legs, watching
:01:12. > :01:20.your legs, and they had a generator which they turned with a handle to
:01:21. > :01:22.pass electricity to you. And they threw darts at you. These were real
:01:23. > :01:26.darts. at the hands of older boys.
:01:27. > :01:29.Today Gifford took to the witness stand at the Jersey Care
:01:30. > :01:31.Inquiry and told his story again. Mr Aubin was giving evidence
:01:32. > :01:33.at the independent inquiry here at Seaton Place.
:01:34. > :01:38.He started by telling how he was taken away
:01:39. > :01:41.in a car when he was about six with his brother and sister and taken to
:01:42. > :01:45.the Jersey Home for Boys. He said he didn't know why he was
:01:46. > :01:49.being taken away from his family. He spent ten years at the children's
:01:50. > :01:52.home and described it like a prison. Mr Aubin told the inquiry today
:01:53. > :01:56.that he was caned by staff for escaping and going home for meals.
:01:57. > :02:03.He said there were about 150 boys at the home and only three staff
:02:04. > :02:05.members and life was hell there, but he couldn't complain through
:02:06. > :02:08.fear of being beaten. When asked what he wanted out
:02:09. > :02:10.of the Inquiry he said to make sure that nothing
:02:11. > :02:13.like that would happen again. Six years ago he told the BBC
:02:14. > :02:14.the same thing. This time he's hoping
:02:15. > :02:24.the authorities listen. It's something that should have
:02:25. > :02:30.never happened. Sometimes you feel, those who were responsible, probably
:02:31. > :02:33.you shouldn't feel that way but you feel that they should have been put
:02:34. > :02:37.inside to know what it was really like.
:02:38. > :02:39.Well, after Mr Aubin's evidence, a woman who spent time in the
:02:40. > :02:46.Jersey Home for Girls, also in the 1940s, told the panel her story.
:02:47. > :02:55.Christina joined me earlier to explain.
:02:56. > :03:00.78`year`old Violet Renouf spoke publicly for the first time. Today
:03:01. > :03:04.she told how at one stage she wet the bed and was made to parade
:03:05. > :03:09.around the dining room in front of the other girls with soiled linen on
:03:10. > :03:12.her head. She also told one point she was put into isolation for three
:03:13. > :03:15.weeks. She says times of the other girls with soiled linen on her head.
:03:16. > :03:21.She also told how at one point she was put into isolation for three
:03:22. > :03:22.weeks. She says times there were very hard and she still has
:03:23. > :03:25.nightmares. The inquiry will hear
:03:26. > :03:27.from more witnesses on Thursday. Guernsey Police has released
:03:28. > :03:30.an image of a man captured on CCTV in the High Street
:03:31. > :03:32.in the early hours of Monday. Martin Martin Jewellers
:03:33. > :03:35.was burgled at about 4:50am, and police are appealing for anyone
:03:36. > :03:38.who saw this man to come forward. A 22`year`old man
:03:39. > :03:40.from England has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and remains
:03:41. > :03:43.in police custody for questioning. The Chinese ambassador to the UK
:03:44. > :03:45.says there are lots of opportunities for Jersey to work
:03:46. > :03:48.more closely with his country. His Excellency Liu Xiaoming is in
:03:49. > :03:51.the island this week, and today he He's offering to host
:03:52. > :03:55.a round table discussion in London. A plaque put up to commemorate
:03:56. > :03:58.the 70th anniversary of the D`Day landings has been vandalised
:03:59. > :04:00.and ripped off a wall in Guernsey. Police are investigating after it
:04:01. > :04:04.was pulled from the wall and bent. Two months ago the island's
:04:05. > :04:07.Lieutenant Governor unveiled this plaque to honour a Canadian pilot
:04:08. > :04:23.who died whilst trying to knock It's a memorial to this guy who died
:04:24. > :04:27.doing good for the island and for Britain. And it's very sad, it makes
:04:28. > :04:32.me feel very sad and very angry that this has happened.
:04:33. > :04:35.A shortlist of companies who could run Guernsey's bus service
:04:36. > :04:38.More than ten operators expressed an interest.
:04:39. > :04:40.Now the Environment Department has to decide who gets the job.
:04:41. > :04:49.Getting you from A to B for decades. Over the years Guernsey's
:04:50. > :04:58.buses have changed a lot. And change is on the cards again.
:04:59. > :05:00.The current bus contract's expiring next April.
:05:01. > :05:04.We've known that for a while. But what we now know is that more
:05:05. > :05:08.than ten companies have expressed an interest in running it in future.
:05:09. > :05:11.And having looked at those initial bids, Environment's
:05:12. > :05:14.now decided which of those companies can officially tender.
:05:15. > :05:18.Where each will make a case for what they can offer,
:05:19. > :05:23.including looking at the size and type of buses they'd use in future,
:05:24. > :05:25.the timetables and routes.
:05:26. > :05:27.The States will decide who gets the job, but the local bus users
:05:28. > :05:35.group hopes it can be involved. The experience we had a previous
:05:36. > :05:41.consultations is that our advice was normally taken six months late. And
:05:42. > :05:44.I think that the new environment board is more consultative and more
:05:45. > :05:50.interested in getting it right first time, rather than having to patch
:05:51. > :05:53.rings up. So I would say very interested in being consulted and
:05:54. > :05:57.being listened to. `` patch things up.
:05:58. > :05:59.group hopes it can be involved. The earliest the new service
:06:00. > :06:03.will start is next April. And with the States still hoping to
:06:04. > :06:04.make the buses free, it really will signal another big change
:06:05. > :06:13.in the history of the Guernsey bus. David has the weather forecast for
:06:14. > :06:17.you now. I am back tomorrow at 630. Good night.
:06:18. > :06:23.Not much change in the weather, same wind and strength of wind and risk
:06:24. > :06:28.of showers, but more isolated showers tomorrow and a better chance
:06:29. > :06:32.of some sunshine. Still breezy and we will not see temperatures much
:06:33. > :06:36.more than 18 or 19 degrees. The culprit is the same area of low
:06:37. > :06:40.pressure, a long way away across the north of Scotland. One weather
:06:41. > :06:44.system will trickle across central France overnight and move away from
:06:45. > :06:47.us. We will see more showers coming in from the west, some lengthy clear
:06:48. > :06:53.spells in between those showers and we cannot rule out the possibility
:06:54. > :06:57.of one or two showers through the night. Overnight temperatures
:06:58. > :07:01.dipping as low as 14 or 15 degrees. Tomorrow the wind changes
:07:02. > :07:05.direction, gradually becoming more north`westerly. Showers fairly
:07:06. > :07:09.isolated into the afternoon, top temperature of 18 or 19 degrees. And
:07:10. > :07:13.with the breeze it will feel colder than that. The forecast for Thursday
:07:14. > :07:18.'s four showers to become more widespread and frequent and quite
:07:19. > :07:22.heavy. Then it becomes largely dry heading into Friday and the start of
:07:23. > :07:26.the weekend. Still quite grew at 18 or 19 degrees, the top temperature.
:07:27. > :07:29.In a second, the forecast for the UK, but in the meantime it is good
:07:30. > :07:32.night and I will leave you with the summary for tomorrow.
:07:33. > :07:38.of a messy couple of days with some heavy rain and showers but here'sing
:07:39. > :07:42.Matt with the national weather. Good evening. Given the recent
:07:43. > :07:46.change in weather conditions I am esure a few of you have mentioned
:07:47. > :07:50."autumn" who would blame new western Scotland today a mid-August day,
:07:51. > :07:54.driving wind, strong winds, temperatures at one po incompetent
:07:55. > :07:59.were just 13. A better day tomorrow, here, though. The cloud we have had
:08:00. > :08:01.today will work southwards. You will notice still unstable air across
:08:02. > :08:04.England and Wales. Lively thunderstorms through today. They
:08:05. > :08:09.are fading away by in large. One or two showers in the West but longer,
:08:10. > :08:12.clearer periods here. We still have that cloud, pushing through to the
:08:13. > :08:16.Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and the north Midlands by the
:08:17. > :08:18.end of the night. But rather than persistent rain, away from the hills
:08:19. > :08:19.it'll