NEWMARKET, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who used them to end their own lives pleaded guilty Friday to counseling or aiding suicide.Wearing a dark blazer and a white shirt, Kenneth Law stood in the prisoner’s box of a Newmarket, Ontario court to enter his guilty pleas. Sentencing is scheduled for September. As part of the plea agreement, Canadian prosecutors will withdraw 14 murder charges against him.Police in Canada and around the world have been investigating more than 100 suicides linked to Law. The charges against him in the Canadian court are related to 14 people across Ontario who were between the ages of 16 and 36.Canadian police said Law used a series of websites to market and sell sodium nitrite, a substance commonly used to cure meats that can be deadly if ingested.
Law is suspected of sending at least 1,200 packages to more than 40 countries, with about 160 of those allegedly sent to addresses in Canada, police said. He has been in custody since his arrest at his Mississauga, Ontario, home in May 2023.Prosecutors in the U.K. have decided not to charge Law despite investigating him on over 112 deaths.
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The Crown Prosecution Service and the National Crime Agency said they had decided that Law “should be sentenced for the full extent of his offending within a single sentencing process in Canada.”
