Toronto-area man jailed for counseling suicide, inflicting 2 deaths

Police in Canada arrested a person for allegedly promoting a deadly substance to folks prone to self-harm and charged him with counseling suicide within the deaths of two Canadians.

Peel Regional Police stated the fees had been lodged late Tuesday in opposition to Kenneth Law, 57, of Mississauga, Ontario, after an investigation into two latest deaths within the space.

Law appeared briefly in a Brampton, Ontario, court docket, on Wednesday and his case was put over to subsequent week.

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Police stated Law used a collection of internet sites to market and promote sodium nitrite, a substance generally used to remedy meats however that may be lethal.

The Globe and Mail reported that Law confirmed earlier than his arrest that he was promoting sodium nitrite on-line however that he denied any wrongdoing. “I’m promoting a authorized product, OK. And what the particular person does with it? I’ve no management,” he was quoted as saying.

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA – 2020/06/12: Canadian National flag waving on a transparent sunny day. A person from suburban Toronto has been accused of offering deadly substances to 2 people who had been prone to committing suicide, and later adopted via on the act. (Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket by way of Getty Images)

Police stated their investigation discovered that a minimum of 1,200 packages had been allegedly despatched by Law to over 40 international locations. Authorities didn’t specify what the packages contained, however Peel Regional Deputy Police Chief Marc Andrews urged anybody who obtained a cargo from Law to contact suicide hotlines and police.

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It is in opposition to the legislation in Canada for somebody to suggest suicide, though assisted suicide has been authorized since 2016 for folks aged a minimum of 18. Any grownup with a severe sickness, illness or incapacity could search assist in dying, however they have to ask for that help from a doctor.

The Canadian Press reported {that a} coroner’s report it obtained from the United Kingdom seems to level to a minimum of one loss of life by suicide within the U.Ok. linked to a postal field in Mississauga and an organization title that police linked to Law.

Ontario Provincial Police issued a public security warning about packages containing sodium nitrite being mailed out throughout the province that will have been despatched to folks prone to self-harm. At least a kind of corporations lists a Kenneth Law as the location founder.