【Acrylic Painting by Dennis Tang】
(Paintings and Photos may not be relevant to the incident described; The Making of @ Youtube: Dennis’ notebook)
R v Dudley and Stephens, 1884 is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder.
Dudley and Stephens were shipwrecked along with two other men, and end up drifting on a small lifeboat. When one of them, the cabin boy Richard Parker, fell into a coma, Dudley and Stephens killed Parker for food.
Being saved, Dudley and Stephens were prosecuted and sentenced to the statutory death penalty with a recommendation for mercy.
In “Life of Pi”, Richard Parker is described as a tiger sharing the lifeboat with the boy, Pi
