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Lead researcher geneticist Dr Turi King said:
"To complete any exhumation application to the Ministry of Justice, a compelling case for the exhumation as well as detailed information on the location and state of the grave would be required, not only for the exhumation of Kelly's remains, but also to determine if any other remains might be disturbed in the process.<br><br>"However, the precise location of her grave is unknown and, not only that, it rapidly became clear that as such, the remains of a number of other individuals would have to be disturbed and that her remains are highly likely to have been dug through when the communal grave site she was buried in was reused in the 1940s, making accurate identification of any of her remains highly problematic if not impossible."</blockquote>
The project to investigate the possibility of locating Kelly's remains followed a claim by Wynne Weston-Davies that Kelly was actually great aunt, Elizabeth Weston Davies.