NED KELLY

I have a book that contains transcripts of the Ned Kelly trials proving that the persecution of his family by the corrupt Victorian Police Force of that day forced a decent man into circumstances which began with the arrest of his innocent mother.

Ned Kelly's mother was imprisoned with an infant child for three years at hard labour for a crime that was later proved to be a grave miscarriage of justice during a Royal Commission into the Victorian Police Force instigated by the Ned Kelly saga.

At Mrs Kelly's trial Judge Barry sentenced Ned, in his absence, to fifteen years imprisonment before he was charged, tried or even arrested for the same crime. A crime that never happened. This sentence convinced Ned that he would get no justice from the law and so began his evasion of it. The same judge later sentenced him to death.

Ned told Judge Barry after his death sentence, "I dare say the day will come when we shall all have to go to a bigger court than this. Then we shall see who is right and who is wrong." Twelve days after Ned's hanging Barry died in great pain from congestion of the lungs and a carbuncle in the neck. Ironically, he choked to death.