I am Judge Longfellow from District court of Victoria, on this day, 29th day of October 1880. Edward Kelly is a Victim. Firstly, when Ned was young his father, Red Kelly, turned to drink and died leaving Ned to look after the rest of the Family. Although Ned wasn’t the oldest child of the family, he was the eldest son leaving him the head of the family. He had horrible uncles and cousins for role models. Between a dozen of their criminal record relatives, they had been arrested more than 60 times in 12 year old Ned’s lifetime. Secondly, he was accused of stealing a horse that he did not and was later charged of receiving a stolen horse which he didn’t know was stolen. Ned was sentenced to 3 years of hard labour at the approximate age of 17. But 6 months were taken off his sentenced for good behaviour, releasing Ned at the age of 19.
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During the incident at Stringybark Creek, Ned and the gang only wanted to get the policeman’s weapons. He gave the police a chance to surrender but they just wanted to kill Ned so he shot them. He knew he had to live to look after his family, his mother in gaol with a three year old baby. Lastly, during the incident at the Glenrowan Hotel, the police didn’t care about Ned. They didn’t want to arrest him, they wanted to kill him. Ned tried his best to protect not only the rest of the gang but the people inside the hotel but wretchedly four civilians were shot, in the volley of police fire, including 2 children while another 3 died. Finally, Ned has been caught, with no money for his defence as the money from bank robberies has been spent or given away. I Judge Longfellow find Edward Kelly guilty as charged and thereby sentence this victim to 3 years of imprisonment at the Melbourne
During the incident at Stringybark Creek, Ned and the gang only wanted to get the policeman’s weapons. He gave the police a chance to surrender but they just wanted to kill Ned so he shot them. He knew he had to live to look after his family, his mother in gaol with a three year old baby. Lastly, during the incident at the Glenrowan Hotel, the police didn’t care about Ned. They didn’t want to arrest him, they wanted to kill him. Ned tried his best to protect not only the rest of the gang but the people inside the hotel but wretchedly four civilians were shot, in the volley of police fire, including 2 children while another 3 died. Finally, Ned has been caught, with no money for his defence as the money from bank robberies has been spent or given away. I Judge Longfellow find Edward Kelly guilty as charged and thereby sentence this victim to 3 years of imprisonment at the Melbourne