Againstthewind
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- Jul 10, 2022
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A British news corporation has seemed to have done an investigation into the SN provider who I know is used frequently and details have been passed around to be used for a while now.
The investigation is titled 'Revealed: the chef selling poison to suicidal youngsters'.
Here is the pasted out article without pictures.
www.thetimes.co.uk
Article Start
A Canadian chef has been supplying suicidal young people in Britain with a lethal poison to enable them to kill themselves, a Times investigation has found.
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, are linked to the poison, which we are not naming, that he sold on a website disguised to fool the authorities about its true purpose.
Law told an undercover reporter posing as a suicidal buyer how to take the substance to best ensure death and boasted that some people had told him that he was doing "God's work".
He also claimed he had sent 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 does have other uses — and coroners have raised concerns about its availability repeatedly.
Assisting suicide is illegal in the UK and Canada and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison in both countries.
David Parfett, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, whose 22-year-old son Tom took his own life after buying the chemical from Law's company, said: "I think he's the man that effectively handed a loaded gun to my son. I believe my son would still be alive if it wasn't for this man and this substance."
Another customer was Anthony Jones, 17, an American who took it and then ran to his mother shouting: "I want to live", but who died shortly afterwards.
Law continued to sell the poison despite being contacted by coroners and the police in the UK and told that the substance is being used for suicide.
The Canadian authorities are now investigating Law after The Times told them about his website, which was taken offline following an approach to the technology companies hosting it.
When confronted by an undercover reporter in a shopping centre on the outskirts of Toronto where he was delivering an armful of packages, Law said "I'm not assisting anything, I'm selling a product."
But Parfett's father said: "I think he's playing God. He is knowingly supplying a substance for people to take their own life and gaining some kind of perverse pleasure from the knowledge that they are doing it."
In the UK Parfett, as well as Michael Dunham, 38, Neha Raju, 23, and a 21-year-old student who we are not naming, have all died in the past 18 months after buying from Law's company.
Their connections to him were pieced together through interviews, inquest records and police reports. There are also up to three deaths linked to Law in the US, including that of Jones.
The Canadian authorities are now investigating Law, after an undercover reporter emailed Law he arranged a time for a "consultation" and to talk about the substance.
He asked us to call his mobile phone and was "looking forward" to speaking to us. Just over a minute into the call he began describing how to take his poison in order to die.
During the 28-minute phone call, Law said Britons were some of his most "frequent buyers", adding: "It will be literally in the hundreds. And they've all received it. We have had many, many customers in the UK who have purchased it."
He also said that "many, many, many, many" had died. "People in the UK have died, people in the US have died, people in Canada have died, and other parts of the world," he said.
Speaking to our undercover reporter, Law said he came up with his business after seeing his mother "suffer greatly" after a stroke. He said: "My father is religious and he didn't believe very much in euthanasia at all.
"She was bedridden, couldn't speak and they had to feed her through a tube to her stomach for over seven years. And that was very painful. Not only for her family, but also very painful for me to witness.
"This is why I created some avenue of escape, so that people, if they are in such a circumstance, can undertake it either by themselves or by somebody else."
His claims about his mother could not be verified and one relative said that his parents had been estranged from him for more than a decade, adding: "I really want nothing to do with him."
Law, a former aerospace engineer, has a many qualifications according to his online CV and in 2004 spent six months in Coventry working on the Boeing 7E7 programme team for Dunlop Standard Aerospace.
•The victims' families: 'He sent hundreds of packages — many people may have died'
But despite his qualifications and experience he was most recently employed as a cook in a Toronto hotel.
Sources said he had worked there since 2016, after wanting a "lifestyle change". The hotel said only that he was not an employee.
During our undercover phone call, Law said he wore a "couple of hats" and was a professional chef, a professional engineer and an executive of a technology firm. He said that the poisoning business was a "side space for me because I feel strongly".
He said: "People might not consider what I do as being very favourable or in fact even criminal. But I think it is helpful for a small, very narrow group of people who really need an avenue like this, because simply the laws of our society don't permit it.
"We're not advanced enough as a civilisation to accept death openly. I hope I'm just being a little bit more enlightened."
Law said the issue of legality was a grey area. "As long as I don't say that the intent is to commit suicide, then it's fine." He added that up to 95 per cent of his buyers had some "serious, underlying issue . . . usually health or old-age related".
But the oldest person we found who had died after taking his product was 38, the youngest was 17 and three were in their 20s.
Customers pay a little extra for plain packaging without his company's name or logo.
Gary Cooper, 41, from Kendal, Cumbria, died last year after ingesting a substance posted in Canada. Neither the police nor his family know who sent the package.
Law said that any communication "that we've exchanged" should be "destroyed" prior to death, adding: "You can always trace back the equipment and I can always deny it. In the UK, it's even easier for me . . . sending international. The UK government has no jurisdiction to the Canadian government."
With a slight laugh, he said: "They're not going to bring me over to the UK for this. It's too small."
He said that the substance came in a "very discreet package", an envelope "no more than a quarter of an inch thick", giving "no notice" to the authorities and fitting through "almost all mailboxes".
He urged our reporter to buy the poison. Law said: "Should the day come for whatever reason — that could be a war in Europe or whatever it might be — at least you would have something readily available."
He said that customers gave him good feedback: "They often say that I do God's work, which is really way too much. I'm much more humble and modest than that."
His website advertised a repeat customer offer and a third-party website offering a 10 per cent discount code for his site.
Law also ran two other websites which appeared to openly sell suicide products. One featured testimonials from those who have bought his products, and one customer saying it was probably the last money they were ever going to spend.
Another testimonial called Law an alternative to Philip Nitschke, a former Australian doctor and founder of pro-euthanasia group Exit International.
On the same website, Law posted an email from the estate of someone who took their own life using one of his products, as proof of how lethal it was.
However, when we confronted Law in Mississauga, the city on Lake Ontario where he lives, to ask him about his business, his tone was starkly different.
He was dressed in light-brown chinos, a dark hooded jacket and a blue and red baseball cap when we approached him outside the post office which serves as the PO Box address for his website.
Law had taken several brown and white packages into the post office after pulling up in a rusty silver car. Clutching two lottery tickets and a bottle, Law said simply that he was "selling a product" when asked if he was assisting suicide.
He said: "People do do this, but it's not my business — it's their life. They are committing suicide themselves. I'm not doing anything. I'm just selling a product. I'm not assisting. It's your choice. I'm not forcing you to buy anything. Perhaps you may want to stop people buying knives and guns."
Law, who was initially friendly, invited us to sit in his car for a chat, but soured as we pushed him harder on why he was providing poison to suicidal people.
He had told Surrey police that he would stop selling the poison, but said: "I haven't run out of my batch. What's the problem with that? I have inventory to sell."
He ended the conversation abruptly and told us to get out of his car. "You're in the UK, you have no jurisdiction here. Goodbye."
It is up to police forces to investigate criminal poison sellers. But no UK police forces have charged Law with any offences. The police did not respond to questions about whether they had reported him to the Canadian authorities or connected him to other suicides.
In the wake of Raju's death last year, Law told Surrey police that he would stop selling the substance "once his stock was depleted", but has carried on selling it. Surrey police said that, at the time, he was "not known" to be doing anything illegal.
The substance is reportable under the Poisons Act in the UK, meaning retailers must alert the authorities if they suspect it is being bought to cause harm to the buyer or others. However, the rules do not apply to firms outside the UK.
The Home Office receives information on poison suicides from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), which is notified of all such deaths. The information is used to spot emerging trends and for the Home Office to contact sellers to remind them of their duty to report suspicious sales. But the name of the poison seller is not routinely passed on by police to the NPCC, because a force may not know where the poison has come from.
Families of those who have died said there needed to be greater oversight on the poison sellers, making it easier to identify those repeatedly involved in suicide cases. Parfett said: "How can something like this go unnoticed for so long?"
As a result of our investigation all three of Law's websites were taken down by GoDaddy, the domain owner, and Shopify, the host.
A spokesman for the police in Ontario confirmed it had begun an investigation into him.
Law did not respond to further requests to comment.
In February Timothy Brennand, the senior coroner for Greater Manchester West, said he would write to the home secretary, Suella Braverman, calling for a "root and branch review" of the poison's availability and regulation.
Brennand had presided over the final in a cluster of inquests connected to the poison. The inquests were told that 57 people had died after a business in the south of England, not connected to Law, had sent the poison across the UK and Europe.
No criminal charges were brought against the business, because the owners were found to believe that they were selling it 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 suicide prevention strategy later this year.
"We are also investing £2.3 billion extra a year into mental health services, which will help an additional two million people to access NHS-funded mental health support by 2024." - LOL
Seems like they have been sniffing around him for a while.
Also. (media doesn't want people to know about said substance, but at the end of the article promotes a podcast about poison) "Poison": a new 3-part podcast series begins on on Wednesday 26th April on Stories of our times.
The Twitter page of The Times has also added in their thread, phone calls they recorded with Kenneth while posting a collage of 'young people' that bought the product.
The investigation is titled 'Revealed: the chef selling poison to suicidal youngsters'.
Here is the pasted out article without pictures.
Revealed: the chef selling poison to suicidal youngsters
A Canadian chef has been supplying suicidal young people in Britain with a lethal poison to enable them to kill themselves, a Times investigation has found. Ken
www.thetimes.co.uk
Article Start
A Canadian chef has been supplying suicidal young people in Britain with a lethal poison to enable them to kill themselves, a Times investigation has found.
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, are linked to the poison, which we are not naming, that he sold on a website disguised to fool the authorities about its true purpose.
Law told an undercover reporter posing as a suicidal buyer how to take the substance to best ensure death and boasted that some people had told him that he was doing "God's work".
He also claimed he had sent 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 does have other uses — and coroners have raised concerns about its availability repeatedly.
Assisting suicide is illegal in the UK and Canada and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison in both countries.
David Parfett, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, whose 22-year-old son Tom took his own life after buying the chemical from Law's company, said: "I think he's the man that effectively handed a loaded gun to my son. I believe my son would still be alive if it wasn't for this man and this substance."
Another customer was Anthony Jones, 17, an American who took it and then ran to his mother shouting: "I want to live", but who died shortly afterwards.
Law continued to sell the poison despite being contacted by coroners and the police in the UK and told that the substance is being used for suicide.
The Canadian authorities are now investigating Law after The Times told them about his website, which was taken offline following an approach to the technology companies hosting it.
When confronted by an undercover reporter in a shopping centre on the outskirts of Toronto where he was delivering an armful of packages, Law said "I'm not assisting anything, I'm selling a product."
But Parfett's father said: "I think he's playing God. He is knowingly supplying a substance for people to take their own life and gaining some kind of perverse pleasure from the knowledge that they are doing it."
In the UK Parfett, as well as Michael Dunham, 38, Neha Raju, 23, and a 21-year-old student who we are not naming, have all died in the past 18 months after buying from Law's company.
Their connections to him were pieced together through interviews, inquest records and police reports. There are also up to three deaths linked to Law in the US, including that of Jones.
The Canadian authorities are now investigating Law, after an undercover reporter emailed Law he arranged a time for a "consultation" and to talk about the substance.
He asked us to call his mobile phone and was "looking forward" to speaking to us. Just over a minute into the call he began describing how to take his poison in order to die.
During the 28-minute phone call, Law said Britons were some of his most "frequent buyers", adding: "It will be literally in the hundreds. And they've all received it. We have had many, many customers in the UK who have purchased it."
He also said that "many, many, many, many" had died. "People in the UK have died, people in the US have died, people in Canada have died, and other parts of the world," he said.
Speaking to our undercover reporter, Law said he came up with his business after seeing his mother "suffer greatly" after a stroke. He said: "My father is religious and he didn't believe very much in euthanasia at all.
"She was bedridden, couldn't speak and they had to feed her through a tube to her stomach for over seven years. And that was very painful. Not only for her family, but also very painful for me to witness.
"This is why I created some avenue of escape, so that people, if they are in such a circumstance, can undertake it either by themselves or by somebody else."
His claims about his mother could not be verified and one relative said that his parents had been estranged from him for more than a decade, adding: "I really want nothing to do with him."
Law, a former aerospace engineer, has a many qualifications according to his online CV and in 2004 spent six months in Coventry working on the Boeing 7E7 programme team for Dunlop Standard Aerospace.
•The victims' families: 'He sent hundreds of packages — many people may have died'
But despite his qualifications and experience he was most recently employed as a cook in a Toronto hotel.
Sources said he had worked there since 2016, after wanting a "lifestyle change". The hotel said only that he was not an employee.
During our undercover phone call, Law said he wore a "couple of hats" and was a professional chef, a professional engineer and an executive of a technology firm. He said that the poisoning business was a "side space for me because I feel strongly".
He said: "People might not consider what I do as being very favourable or in fact even criminal. But I think it is helpful for a small, very narrow group of people who really need an avenue like this, because simply the laws of our society don't permit it.
"We're not advanced enough as a civilisation to accept death openly. I hope I'm just being a little bit more enlightened."
Law said the issue of legality was a grey area. "As long as I don't say that the intent is to commit suicide, then it's fine." He added that up to 95 per cent of his buyers had some "serious, underlying issue . . . usually health or old-age related".
But the oldest person we found who had died after taking his product was 38, the youngest was 17 and three were in their 20s.
Customers pay a little extra for plain packaging without his company's name or logo.
Gary Cooper, 41, from Kendal, Cumbria, died last year after ingesting a substance posted in Canada. Neither the police nor his family know who sent the package.
Law said that any communication "that we've exchanged" should be "destroyed" prior to death, adding: "You can always trace back the equipment and I can always deny it. In the UK, it's even easier for me . . . sending international. The UK government has no jurisdiction to the Canadian government."
With a slight laugh, he said: "They're not going to bring me over to the UK for this. It's too small."
He said that the substance came in a "very discreet package", an envelope "no more than a quarter of an inch thick", giving "no notice" to the authorities and fitting through "almost all mailboxes".
He urged our reporter to buy the poison. Law said: "Should the day come for whatever reason — that could be a war in Europe or whatever it might be — at least you would have something readily available."
He said that customers gave him good feedback: "They often say that I do God's work, which is really way too much. I'm much more humble and modest than that."
His website advertised a repeat customer offer and a third-party website offering a 10 per cent discount code for his site.
Law also ran two other websites which appeared to openly sell suicide products. One featured testimonials from those who have bought his products, and one customer saying it was probably the last money they were ever going to spend.
Another testimonial called Law an alternative to Philip Nitschke, a former Australian doctor and founder of pro-euthanasia group Exit International.
On the same website, Law posted an email from the estate of someone who took their own life using one of his products, as proof of how lethal it was.
However, when we confronted Law in Mississauga, the city on Lake Ontario where he lives, to ask him about his business, his tone was starkly different.
He was dressed in light-brown chinos, a dark hooded jacket and a blue and red baseball cap when we approached him outside the post office which serves as the PO Box address for his website.
Law had taken several brown and white packages into the post office after pulling up in a rusty silver car. Clutching two lottery tickets and a bottle, Law said simply that he was "selling a product" when asked if he was assisting suicide.
He said: "People do do this, but it's not my business — it's their life. They are committing suicide themselves. I'm not doing anything. I'm just selling a product. I'm not assisting. It's your choice. I'm not forcing you to buy anything. Perhaps you may want to stop people buying knives and guns."
Law, who was initially friendly, invited us to sit in his car for a chat, but soured as we pushed him harder on why he was providing poison to suicidal people.
He had told Surrey police that he would stop selling the poison, but said: "I haven't run out of my batch. What's the problem with that? I have inventory to sell."
He ended the conversation abruptly and told us to get out of his car. "You're in the UK, you have no jurisdiction here. Goodbye."
It is up to police forces to investigate criminal poison sellers. But no UK police forces have charged Law with any offences. The police did not respond to questions about whether they had reported him to the Canadian authorities or connected him to other suicides.
In the wake of Raju's death last year, Law told Surrey police that he would stop selling the substance "once his stock was depleted", but has carried on selling it. Surrey police said that, at the time, he was "not known" to be doing anything illegal.
The substance is reportable under the Poisons Act in the UK, meaning retailers must alert the authorities if they suspect it is being bought to cause harm to the buyer or others. However, the rules do not apply to firms outside the UK.
The Home Office receives information on poison suicides from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), which is notified of all such deaths. The information is used to spot emerging trends and for the Home Office to contact sellers to remind them of their duty to report suspicious sales. But the name of the poison seller is not routinely passed on by police to the NPCC, because a force may not know where the poison has come from.
Families of those who have died said there needed to be greater oversight on the poison sellers, making it easier to identify those repeatedly involved in suicide cases. Parfett said: "How can something like this go unnoticed for so long?"
As a result of our investigation all three of Law's websites were taken down by GoDaddy, the domain owner, and Shopify, the host.
A spokesman for the police in Ontario confirmed it had begun an investigation into him.
Law did not respond to further requests to comment.
In February Timothy Brennand, the senior coroner for Greater Manchester West, said he would write to the home secretary, Suella Braverman, calling for a "root and branch review" of the poison's availability and regulation.
Brennand had presided over the final in a cluster of inquests connected to the poison. The inquests were told that 57 people had died after a business in the south of England, not connected to Law, had sent the poison across the UK and Europe.
No criminal charges were brought against the business, because the owners were found to believe that they were selling it 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 suicide prevention strategy later this year.
"We are also investing £2.3 billion extra a year into mental health services, which will help an additional two million people to access NHS-funded mental health support by 2024." - LOL
Seems like they have been sniffing around him for a while.
Also. (media doesn't want people to know about said substance, but at the end of the article promotes a podcast about poison) "Poison": a new 3-part podcast series begins on on Wednesday 26th April on Stories of our times.
The Twitter page of The Times has also added in their thread, phone calls they recorded with Kenneth while posting a collage of 'young people' that bought the product.
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i knew these pricks especially uk pricks had summit to do with it, as i saw other similar articles out there, they can fuck off
