Little has changed since Kenneth Law’s arrest, says father whose son died by suicide
The Crown is expected to drop murder charges as Law pleads guilty to 14 aiding-suicide counts, after police said he shipped about 1,200 packages worldwide.
- On Friday, Kenneth Law is expected to plead guilty to aiding suicide in Newmarket, Ont., as prosecutors withdraw 14 first-degree murder charges against him.
- Police allege Law operated websites selling lethal substances, shipping 1,200 packages to over 40 countries, with about 160 sent to Canada targeting 14 victims in Ontario aged 16 to 36.
- David Parfett, whose son Tom died in 2021 after purchasing from a website linked to Law, said "Canadians are still dying yet those deaths should have been prevented with lessons learned from the Law case."
- The plea deal follows multiple trial delays while awaiting a Supreme Court of Canada decision that declined to "conclusively resolve" the "abstract legal issue" regarding murder charges in suicides.
- Britain's National Crime Agency is investigating deaths linked to Canadian-based websites, while a New Zealand coroner found four fatalities involved Law's business, prompting Parfett to seek his extradition to the United Kingdom.
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Kenneth Law expected to plead guilty today to 14 counts of aiding suicide
Prosecutors are expected to withdraw more than a dozen murder charges against Kenneth Law today, with the Ontario man at the heart of an international investigation instead pleading guilty to aiding suicide. Law, 60, is accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm, some of whom went on to take their own lives. He was scheduled to stand trial in Newmarket, Ont., last month on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and…
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Little has changed since Kenneth Law’s arrest, says father whose son died by suicide
TORONTO - Years after Kenneth Law's arrest, a father who holds the Ontario man responsible for his son's death by suicide says little has been done to rein in the
David Parfett, whose 22-year-old son took his life in 2021, held the Ontarian Kenneth Law responsible for the death of his son.
Can suicide be murder? With Kenneth Law to plead guilty to lesser charge, we may never know
The British journalist’s sting that brought Kenneth Law to the attention of Canadian police three years ago played out with high cinematic tension. Chasing reports of do-it-yourself poison kits marketed through an online suicide instructional chatroom and sold through a thinly disguised culinary supply website, Times of London reporter James Beal had tracked what he believed to be Law’s business to a post office box in a Mississauga, Ont., pharm…
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