Comhroinn Fuaime

The Cannibalism Case That Was Really About Murder. Can you kill one innocent person, to save yourself? A famous court case said: no. The Case... In 1884, four shipwrecked sailors were stranded in a lifeboat for many days without food or water. Starving and desperate, two men, Dudley and Stephens, killed the weakest person among them: a 17-year-old cabin boy, Richard Parker. They then ate his body to survive until rescue came. The shocking fact was cannibalism. The legal issue was whether n