Bones of Australian outlaw icon Ned Kelly identified

Australian authorities have identified the remains of bushranger Ned Kelly, 131 years after the iconic outcastwas hanged for murder and his body buried in the yard of a Melbourne jail.

But mystery remains over the location of Kelly’s skull, which was last thought to havesat on the desk of a Victorian state police detective in 1929.

Scientists have used DNA from Kelly’s great great nephew to identify the bushranger’s bones from others in a mass prison grave.

“To think a group of scientists could identify the body of a man who was executed more than 130 years ago, moved and buried in a haphazard fashion among 33 other prisoners, most of whom are not identified, is amazing,” Victoria’s state Attorney-General Robert Clark said on Thursday.



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