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| THE fate of Ned Kelly may remain forever a mystery because the State Government will not spend $200,000 to identify his remains. In a major archeological coup, the skeleton of Australia's most famous bushranger is believed to have been exhumed in March, among those of 31 other executed prisoners, from a plot at Pentridge Prison. The sets of remains are being held under the jurisdiction of the State Coroner at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine at Southbank, where it was intended they would be identified using the latest forensic technology - including DNA testing. But sources close to the exhumation say the Department of Justice is refusing to pay for the identification of all but two of the sets of remains. |