At the beginning of the year there were two main topics under discussion : the first was a mainstream and social media campaign to promote a claim to have discovered the exact spot where Ned Kelly murdered Sgt Kennedy, and the exact spot where the police search party had made their campsite at Stringybark Creek. […]
Month: December 2020
The Actual True Story : Part XII : Ned Kellys Trial for the Murder of Constable Lonigan
The trial of Ned Kelly took place in Melbourne over two days in late October 1880. Kelly was found guilty of the murder of Thomas Lonigan, and the presiding Judge, Redmond Barry sentenced him to death. In this post I am not going to describe the minutiae of the trial or dissect the legal mechanics […]