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A 79`year`old Jersey man has told how he was given electric shocks | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
and had darts thrown at him when in a children's home in the 1940s. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Gifford Aubin was giving evidence at the Jersey Care Inquiry today. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
He said the Jersey Home for Boys, which is now known as Haut de la | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Well, six years ago, when the scale of abuse in the care system first | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Christina Ghidoni takes up his story then and now. | :00:36. | :00:47. | |
That's me there and this is my brother. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
2008, and as allegations of abuse at Haut de la Garenne hit the | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
headlines, former resident Gifford Aubin told a BBC reporter about the | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
abuse he had suffered there, usually at the hands of older boys. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
They did all sorts of things from putting wires on your legs, watching | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
your legs, and they had a generator which they turned with a handle to | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
pass electricity to you. And they threw darts at you. These were real | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
darts. at the hands of older boys. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Today Gifford took to the witness stand at the Jersey Care | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Inquiry and told his story again. Mr Aubin was giving evidence | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
at the independent inquiry here at Seaton Place. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
He started by telling how he was taken away | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
in a car when he was about six with his brother and sister and taken to | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
the Jersey Home for Boys. He said he didn't know why he was | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
being taken away from his family. He spent ten years at the children's | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
home and described it like a prison. Mr Aubin told the inquiry today | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
that he was caned by staff for escaping and going home for meals. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
He said there were about 150 boys at the home and only three staff | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
members and life was hell there, but he couldn't complain through | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
fear of being beaten. When asked what he wanted out | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
of the Inquiry he said to make sure that nothing | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
like that would happen again. Six years ago he told the BBC | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
the same thing. This time he's hoping | :02:14. | :02:14. | |
the authorities listen. It's something that should have | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
never happened. Sometimes you feel, those who were responsible, probably | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
you shouldn't feel that way but you feel that they should have been put | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
inside to know what it was really like. | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Well, after Mr Aubin's evidence, a woman who spent time in the | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Jersey Home for Girls, also in the 1940s, told the panel her story. | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
Christina joined me earlier to explain. | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
78`year`old Violet Renouf spoke publicly for the first time. Today | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
she told how at one stage she wet the bed and was made to parade | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
around the dining room in front of the other girls with soiled linen on | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
her head. She also told one point she was put into isolation for three | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
weeks. She says times of the other girls with soiled linen on her head. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
She also told how at one point she was put into isolation for three | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
weeks. She says times there were very hard and she still has | :03:22. | :03:22. | |
nightmares. The inquiry will hear | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
from more witnesses on Thursday. Guernsey Police has released | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
an image of a man captured on CCTV in the High Street | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
in the early hours of Monday. Martin Martin Jewellers | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
was burgled at about 4:50am, and police are appealing for anyone | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
who saw this man to come forward. A 22`year`old man | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
from England has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and remains | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
in police custody for questioning. The Chinese ambassador to the UK | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
says there are lots of opportunities for Jersey to work | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
more closely with his country. His Excellency Liu Xiaoming is in | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
the island this week, and today he He's offering to host | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
a round table discussion in London. A plaque put up to commemorate | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
the 70th anniversary of the D`Day landings has been vandalised | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
and ripped off a wall in Guernsey. Police are investigating after it | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
was pulled from the wall and bent. Two months ago the island's | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
Lieutenant Governor unveiled this plaque to honour a Canadian pilot | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
who died whilst trying to knock It's a memorial to this guy who died | :04:08. | :04:23. | |
doing good for the island and for Britain. And it's very sad, it makes | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
me feel very sad and very angry that this has happened. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
A shortlist of companies who could run Guernsey's bus service | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
More than ten operators expressed an interest. | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Now the Environment Department has to decide who gets the job. | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
Getting you from A to B for decades. Over the years Guernsey's | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
buses have changed a lot. And change is on the cards again. | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
The current bus contract's expiring next April. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
We've known that for a while. But what we now know is that more | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
than ten companies have expressed an interest in running it in future. | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
And having looked at those initial bids, Environment's | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
now decided which of those companies can officially tender. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Where each will make a case for what they can offer, | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
including looking at the size and type of buses they'd use in future, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
the timetables and routes. | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
The States will decide who gets the job, but the local bus users | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
group hopes it can be involved. The experience we had a previous | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
consultations is that our advice was normally taken six months late. And | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
I think that the new environment board is more consultative and more | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
interested in getting it right first time, rather than having to patch | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
rings up. So I would say very interested in being consulted and | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
being listened to. `` patch things up. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
group hopes it can be involved. The earliest the new service | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
will start is next April. And with the States still hoping to | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
make the buses free, it really will signal another big change | :06:04. | :06:04. | |
in the history of the Guernsey bus. David has the weather forecast for | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
you now. I am back tomorrow at 630. Good night. | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
Not much change in the weather, same wind and strength of wind and risk | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
of showers, but more isolated showers tomorrow and a better chance | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
of some sunshine. Still breezy and we will not see temperatures much | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
more than 18 or 19 degrees. The culprit is the same area of low | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
pressure, a long way away across the north of Scotland. One weather | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
system will trickle across central France overnight and move away from | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
us. We will see more showers coming in from the west, some lengthy clear | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
spells in between those showers and we cannot rule out the possibility | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
of one or two showers through the night. Overnight temperatures | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
dipping as low as 14 or 15 degrees. Tomorrow the wind changes | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
direction, gradually becoming more north`westerly. Showers fairly | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
isolated into the afternoon, top temperature of 18 or 19 degrees. And | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
with the breeze it will feel colder than that. The forecast for Thursday | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
's four showers to become more widespread and frequent and quite | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
heavy. Then it becomes largely dry heading into Friday and the start of | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the weekend. Still quite grew at 18 or 19 degrees, the top temperature. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
In a second, the forecast for the UK, but in the meantime it is good | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
night and I will leave you with the summary for tomorrow. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
of a messy couple of days with some heavy rain and showers but here'sing | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
Matt with the national weather. Good evening. Given the recent | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
change in weather conditions I am esure a few of you have mentioned | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
"autumn" who would blame new western Scotland today a mid-August day, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
driving wind, strong winds, temperatures at one po incompetent | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
were just 13. A better day tomorrow, here, though. The cloud we have had | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
today will work southwards. You will notice still unstable air across | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
England and Wales. Lively thunderstorms through today. They | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
are fading away by in large. One or two showers in the West but longer, | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
clearer periods here. We still have that cloud, pushing through to the | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland, north Wales and the north Midlands by the | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
end of the night. But rather than persistent rain, away from the hills | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
it'll | :08:19. | :08:19. |