Melbourne, Australia: A handout picture from the State Library of Victoria, shows a policeman wearing bushwhacker Ned Kelly’s armour in 1880.

Victoria’s Attorney-General Robert Clark announced that a new exhumation licence has been issued to enable the remains of Ned Kelly to be returned to his family’s descendants and laid to rest.

Photograph: State Library Of Victoria/EPA

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