There is no doubt that Ned Kelly was repeatedly rejected and ignored, which made him the victim he has to be recognised as. Imagine being accused of crimes that you never did, paying fines for fights you never intended to be in, accused of stealing a horse and getting a longer jail time that the thief did and unfairly sentenced to death when you are only charged with one crime. Ned had been in trouble with the law since he was twelve after he was accused of stealing a horse. Ned fled to the bush and he started what people called “his life of crime” even though it was what he had been forced to start. Imagine if you were him?
Ned was fined seventy pounds because he was pulled into a fight that had nothing to do with him. He was accused of violent assault even though, he was innocently pulled into it. The police always incriminated Ned, and now that he had been seen in a fight, they didn’t even care to hear his side of the story and they just jumped to a conclusion. The troopers had already taken lots of money from the Kelly’s for crimes that they had been accused of before, and now they had to scrape together all their saving to pay for Ned but ten-pounds were left un-paid. Ned had been unable to pay the overpriced fine and was …show more content…
He was repeatedly victimised as the trouble maker in his childhood and adult life only because people had no idea what others had done to him. From the unfair fight that Ned was charged in to the unforgettable trail and sentence Ned was given, all shows that Ned was innocent and should be remembered as a poor boy and should have never been unfairly punished the way he was. Some say he was a hero and others say a villain but none of them know the true story of how he was repetitively victimised and incriminated and who should be remembered the victim of the