DNA tests could prove that seven pigtails kept in a 19th-century tobacco tin belonged to the infamous mutineers on HMS Bounty, the first physical evidence of the men’s existence.

THE sex abuse trials of seven men from Pitcairn Island will begin on Monday, on the remote British outpost in the South Pacific that is home to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.

A rape investigation on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific has snowballed.