‘Breaker’ Morant killed 12 prisoners during the Boer war. So why do supporters say he should be memorialised in Adelaide?

Cathie Morant, a distant cousin of Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, at the Boer War memorial in Canberra. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Harry “Breaker” Morant was a “likeable rogue”, his distant cousin Cathie Morant says, and he should be posthumously pardoned.

Morant, who was found guilty of murdering 12 people, has also been described as a scapegoat, a folk hero, a womaniser and a bush poet, writing ballads under the name “the Breaker”.