Why Real Investigative Journalistic Reporting is Needed in Jersey Channel Islands

When my emotions feel like are going to spill out ofwhich caused delays in gathering evidence.
your mouth at any moment, I find myself doubleEvery obstacle conceivable appears to have been put
checking everything I say or do before I say or do it.into place by what is known as the Jersey Elite
Wherever I am and whatever I am doing I oftenEstablishment party to cover up what has happened
feel an overwhelming desire to just explode from thein the island, and as a direct result of their actions
mouth or from the pen, and fight against thethere are cases against child abusers in Jersey which
injustice I see going on around me. It is blatant andthe Jersey Police have been prevented from doing
disgusting, and yet like many others there are timestheir job and bring prosecutions against. Jersey's
when even I am afraid to speak the truth openly inAttorney general rules out prosecution saying there
fear of consequences beyond my control.was 'significant conflict of evidence' and the Jersey
How so many people living in Jersey who havePolice are having their hands tied by a system which
suffered the most horrendous abuse as children inis broken and considered to be unjust by many of
the island at the hands of many establishment arethe islands residents.
homes like 'Haut de la Garenne' have the guts andThere is a revolting culture of concealment of too
true grit to carry on is quite extraordinary brave andmany decades of child abuse. The proper
they are an example to us all, I take my hat off toadministration of justice in Jersey is not being seen to
them.be done, the islands media in general including the
For those of you who don't already know, Jersey isBBC are blatantly showing bias in favour of Jersey's
run by a dictatorship of elite and there are claimsElite Establishment Party, and if it wasn't for some of
that the island's authorities have hindered the policethe international media there wouldn't have been any
investigation. Its former head of the Policefair reporting by the media on the situation at all. The
investigation of 'Haut de la Garenne', Lenny Harper,world would have been kept in the dark forever, and
has said it was "political hostility" to the wider inquirythe dirty goings on brushed under the carpet.