The remains of Australian outlaw and folk hero
Ned Kelly
have been identified and will be returned to his family, 132 years
later. Kelly was executed by hanging in 1880, then buried in a mass
grave. Remains of many prison inmates were moved in 1929, and then
exhumed in 2009. DNA testing identified Kelly's bones, but the skull is
still missing.
Property developers of the site had
hoped to retain possession of Kelly’s remains to display in a museum,
but Australia’s Victoria state government on Wednesday issued a new
license for the bones, which instead returned them to his family. “The
Kelly family will now make arrangements for Ned’s final burial,” Ellen
Hollow, the great-great granddaughter of the outlaw’s sister said in a
statement. “We also appeal to the person who has the skull in their
possession to return it… so that when the time comes for Ned to be laid
to rest his remains can be complete.”
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