A Canadian chef has supplied young people in Britain with a deadly poison to enable them to kill themselves.
The shocking discovery was made by The Times . Kenneth Law has been sending the substance to vulnerable people around the world from a post office near Toronto for two years. Up to seven deaths, including four in the UK, have been linked to the poison, which has not yet been named. It is understood that he sold the poison on a disguised website to mislead authorities about its true purpose.
Law told a reporter posing as a suicidal shopper while bragging to people that he was doing "God's work." He also claimed to have shipped the product to "hundreds" of people in the UK. The substance, which has caused at least 70 deaths in the UK and Europe, is legal to sell – and has other uses, while doctors have repeatedly raised concerns about its availability. Assisted suicide is illegal in the UK and Canada and punishable by up to 14 years in prison in both countries.
David Parfett, from Maidenhead, father of Tom, a 22-year-old who killed himself after buying poison from Law's company, said: “I think he is the man who effectively gave my son a loaded gun. I believe my son would still be alive if it weren't for this man and this substance."
Another customer was Anthony Jones, 17, an American who picked her up and then ran to his mother shouting: "I want to live", but died shortly afterwards. The Times revealed that doctors and police in the UK have contacted Law about using his poison, but he had continued to sell it.
When confronted by a reporter at a mall in suburban Toronto where he was delivering a series of packages, Law said: "I'm not helping anything, I'm selling a product."
But Parfett's father said: “I think he's playing God. He is knowingly supplying people with a substance to take their lives and derives some kind of perverse satisfaction.”
Në Mbretërinë e Bashkuar Parfett, si dhe Michael Dunham, 38, Neha Raju, 23, dhe një studente 21-vjeçare që i bëhet e ditur identiteti, kanë vdekur të gjithë në 18 muajt e fundit pasi blenë nga kompania e Law.
Lidhjet e tyre me të u bashkuan përmes intervistave, dosjeve të hetimeve dhe raporteve të policisë.
Pasi një gazetar i fshehtë i dërgoi email Law, ai organizoi një kohë për një “konsultim” dhe për të folur për substancën. Gjatë telefonatës 28-minutëshe, Law tha se britanikët ishin disa nga “blerësit e tij më të shpeshtë”.
Asked how many of the UK had requested the poison, he said: "Hundreds. And they all got it. We've had many, many customers in the UK buy it.” Law, a former aerospace engineer, has many qualifications according to his online CV and in 2004 spent six months in Coventry working on the Boeing 7E7 program team for Dunlop Standard Aerospace.
It is also learned that the oldest person said to have died was 38 years old, the youngest was 17 years old. No criminal charges were brought against the person's business, as it was determined that the owners believed they were selling to people for legitimate reasons. A government spokesman said: "We are working hard to reduce the number of suicides and will publish a new national strategy to prevent this phenomenon."