The remains of 19th century outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly have been identified - 130 years after he was hanged for killing three policemen in Australia.
His body was thrown into a mass grave at the Melbourne jail where the hanging took place.
The remains of the 33 inmates were later transferred to another mass grave and were again exhumed in 2009.
Using DNA from the descendants of Kelly's sister, scientists say they have now identified him but it is not yet clear where the remains will be finally laid to rest.
Famous for wearing home-made body armour, he has been described as a symbol of Irish-Australian resistance to the British ruling class in the country at that time.
Kelly was sentenced to death for murder over his gang's killing of three policemen, and he was hanged in Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880.
After his death, Kelly's body was buried in the grounds of the old Melbourne Gaol and a death mask was made from his head.
When the prison closed in 1929, Kelly's remains and the bones of other prisoners were exhumed and re-buried in a mass grave at the newer Pentridge Prison. Kelly's skull may have been separated from his skeleton during the transfer.
The mass grave was excavated again in 2009, sparking the quest to identify which bones belonged to Kelly.
"Kelly has remained a consistent icon of Australia and Australian bush life, so therefore it has a high level of significance from the Australian community because it's part of its cultural heritage," Deputy Director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine David Ranson told Reuters.
"From a point of view of Australian culture there's always been this dichotomy of Ned Kelly the police killer and the folk hero at a time of unrest and tensions."
Mr Ranson said DNA now proved a skull, which had been on display alongside the Kelly death mask at Melbourne Gaol, did not belong to the bushranger.
"Did that get lost in the transfer from prisons or was it souvenired? We don't know," he said.
