Authorities in Ontario charged Kenneth Law, who is accused of running a website targeted at suicidal individuals, with two counts of counselling and aiding suicide earlier in May.
Authorities in Ontario charged Kenneth Law, who is accused of running a website targeted at suicidal individuals, with two counts of counselling and aiding suicide earlier in May Authorities in Ontario charged Kenneth Law, 57, on two counts of counselling and aiding suicide, believing he had ‘distributed and marketed [a] substance online to target individuals at risk of self-harm.’
The investigation into Law is now reported to have expanded, with the UK National Crime Agency revealing it has identified more than 272 people who bought toxic items from Canadian websites thought to be linked with Law in the two years prior to his arrest.A father of one of Law’s alleged victims recently told BBC Radio 4 his son was ‘encouraged by members of a certain online community’ on how to take his own life, specifically by ‘taking poison’.
‘We will find out more about Kenneth Law’s [alleged] impact across the world. The picture is still emerging and the UK authorities, in my understanding, are the first people to actually put a number on that.’He went on: ‘I think it’s also important to focus [on the fact that] we have at least been able to help some people. We know that something along the lines of 270 packages were sent to the UK, from which there were 88 deaths.
The BBC presenter added: ‘We should say, the National Crime Agency, though they’re investigating these 88 deaths, they can’t confirm a direct link between the chemical and the cause of death.’
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