THE skeleton of Australia's most notorious criminal is finally to be returned to his descendants 132 years after he was executed.
THE skeleton of Australia's most notorious criminal is finally to be returned to his descendants 132 years after he was executed.
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MELBOURNE
Ned Kelly led a gang of bank robbers in Australia's southern Victoria state before he was hanged in 1880.
The whereabouts of his corpse were long unknown, but forensic scientists identified Kelly's nearly headless skeleton last year after it was found in a mass grave outside a former prison.
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