Cannibalism on the High Seas: The Murder of Richard Parker, 1884

When 17 year old Richard Parker went to sea for the first time in May 1884, he can hardly have imagined the gruesome and terrible end that awaited him in a few weeks' time... The trial of Dudley and Stephens later that year was to become a celebrated case, and to produce a landmark ruling at the Royal Courts of Justice that necessity is not a defence for murder.

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