Richard Parker was the 17-year-old orphaned cabin boy on the Mignonette who was killed by Captain Dudley to sustain the crew after their shipwreck in 1884.
Parker's death and the subsequent trial of his killers produced R v Dudley and Stephens, the leading common law case establishing that necessity is no defense to murder — the case became the central real-world example in debates about utilitarian ethics versus rights-based constraints.
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