Remains of Ned Kelly to be laid to rest after 132 years

The remains of Australia’s most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly, are finally to be laid to rest, 132 years after he was hanged for murder.

Kelly’s descendants, who received the bushranger’s remains after they were exhumed from a mass prison grave, said they will hold a private church memorial service tomorrow before the burial in an unmarked grave on Sunday.

The homemade armour and helmet he wore during his last violent shootout with police and his reported final words before he was hanged at Melbourne Gaol on Nov 11, 1880 — “such is life” — helped make Kelly an iconic figure.