‘We ate each other one by one’: Gruesome story of Australia’s cannibal convict

When 29-year-old Irishman Alexander Pearce landed in Van Diemen’s Land in 1819 to begin a seven-year sentence for stealing six pairs of shoes, he quickly hatched a plan to escape.

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