Overview
- Workers found bones during bus stop works at Holy Trinity Church on Rottnest Island, police said Wednesday.
- A forensic pathologist confirmed the remains are human.
- Police transferred the bones to Perth for forensic testing to estimate how old they are.
- Officers cordoned off the church grounds while they gathered evidence at the scene.
- The find has renewed focus on Wadjemup’s prison era, when 3,700 Aboriginal men and boys were jailed and hundreds died, with many buried in unmarked graves.