Suicide ‘cover-up’ at Haut de la Garenne

Friday 7th March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.

STAFF at Haut de la Garenne covered up suicides during the 1960s, it has been claimed.

Carl Denning (49), who now lives in Wales, says that two of his friends hanged themselves between 1964 and 1965 after being kept in a ‘detention cell’ at the former children’s home.

Mr Denning also says that two other boys whom he did not know killed themselves at Haut de la Garenne.

It is not clear whether one of those boys was Michael O’Connell (14), who hanged himself in 1966 after repeatedly claiming that he did not want to remain at the care home.

Mr Denning, who was taken to the children’s home from Guernsey to escape his abusive parents, said that the police were never told about the deaths.

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