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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robert Dex and Arts Correspondent

London museum could face legal action over skeleton of Irish giant

A London museum faces potential legal action over the skeleton of an Irish giant it is keeping for “medical research”.

Campaigners have asked Westminster council to intervene under the Public Health Act to help them bury Charles Byrne, who died in London in 1783.

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