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| Ned Kelly's bones spark outrage among victims VICTIMS of crime groups have slammed plans to commemorate Ned Kelly at a cemetery and rose garden on the site of Melbourne's old Pentridge Prison. Plans for the garden and a historical display emerged after Ned Kelly's last resting place was found among bones dug up last week at the former prison site. Heritage Victoria plans to create the garden and re-inter remains found in an archaeological dig. But Crime Victims Support Association chief Noel McNamara said yesterday the plan was "not on". "We wouldn't go along with that - its just glorifying mass murderers," he said. "There could be grandkids or great-grandkids who knew or know about the victims of these people." Mr McNamara said Ned Kelly was a genuine historical figure, but that his remains should be re-interred at Glenrowan. "Ned was probably a cop killer and a horse thief, but he is a bit of legendary figure. He should be removed to Glenrowan with the rest of the historical stuff," he said. "But the others are just scumbags - the lowest of the low. And there's no way we should be glorifying these people." The bodies found at Pentridge were put there in 1929 after Old Melbourne Gaol closed. Archaeologists working in the first pit to be opened last week exhumed two layers of coffins and found evidence of a third layer. |