Police dismiss rumours that bone part is Neolithic

Wednesday 5th March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.

POLICE investigations at Haut de la Garenne continue today, just over a fortnight after they started digging around the site.

Senior investigating officer Lenny Harper said work was continuing as normal – and that there was nothing to suggest that the skull fragment found ten days ago was thousands of years old.

The police arrived at the site just over a fortnight ago, and have worked from 7 am to 11 pm every day since.

Mr Harper – who this morning has become the full-time head of the Haut de la Garenne abuse inquiry and has given up his other duties as deputy police chief – said rumours that the skull fragment had already been found to be Neolithic were wrong.

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