the cabin boy's death was intended in the core or direct sense: the defendants aimed to kill him, in order then to eat him. In Re A, M's death was no part of the doctors' aim or purpose, but was at least a virtually certain consequence of what they set out to achieve. (We return to this issue below.) It is only by supplementing Brooke LJ's analysis with these distinctions that the rule in Dudley and Stephens can safely be evaded.