Relative slams 'medieval' plan for Kelly's bones

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One of Ned Kelly's relatives says he is disgusted that the Victorian Government is considering putting the infamous bushranger's skeleton on public display.

Forensic teams have confirmed a headless skeleton found stuffed into an axe box and buried at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison belongs to Kelly, who was hanged for murder in 1880.

The remains were found among among the bones of hundreds of prisoners exhumed from the Old Melbourne Gaol and reinterred in a mass grave at Pentridge in 1929.

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine says it is an almost complete skeleton but with most of the skull missing.

A DNA sample taken from Melbourne school teacher Leigh Olver, who is the great grandson of Kelly's sister Ellen, confirmed the identification.

Anthony Griffiths, the great grandson of Ned Kelly's sister Grace, says any public exhibition of the bones would be "macabre and disgusting".

"The presentation of a corpse on display is something out of medieval times," he said.



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