Liberate us from lies

Speaking to an audience of over 1,000 Islanders and visitors at the celebration of the 63rd anniversary of Jersey’s liberation from the occupying German forces, Sir Philip Bailhache paid tribute to those who ‘kept alive the flame of freedom’ here and in the UK throughout the Occupation.

But he said that the ‘feeding frenzy of righteous indignation and further wild speculation’ that had spread across the world since the discovery of part of a child’s skull at the former children’s home in February was an unjustified smear on the Island and its inhabitants.