Former chef Kenneth Law was accused of selling 1,200 boxes

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E Snejana Farberov

A Canadian chef has been accused of running a sick money scheme in which he sold more than 1,200 poison-filled suicide kits linked to more than 100 deaths. all over the world.

Kenneth Law, 58, was charged this week with 14 counts of second-degree murder for helping more than a dozen young people, including teenagers, in the province of Ontario to killed themselves, the police announced on Tuesday.

Law was previously charged with 14 counts of “counseling or assisting suicide” in connection with the same deaths in Ontario.

Police say Law sent 160 packages of sodium nitrite — a food preservative that can be fatal if misused — to people in Canada between the ages of 16 and 36.

He is also believed to have sent at least 1,200 of these life-saving aids to addresses in more than 40 countries since 2020, when he lost his job at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto in time of COVID.

Act has been linked to 117 deaths worldwide, most of them in the UK, CBC Library of Canada reports, cited documents and court records.

The National Crime Agency in London has identified 272 people in the UK who bought things from Law’s websites, and 90 of them died.

One of Law’s alleged victims was 22-year-old Tom Parfett of Sunbury-on-Thames, who took his own life in October 2021 using a drug he bought for about $60. on Law’s website, according to his father.

“It sends a signal to other people who encourage vulnerable people to harm themselves and give suicide kits that they are not behind the law,” David Parfett tell the BBC in response to charges of murder brought against the Act in Canada.

Authorities in New Zealand, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Switzerland all confirmed that Law sent packages to their countries, resulting in at least one known death.

James said at a press conference on Tuesday that Ontario police are cooperating with several international investigations.

Law, who police say used multiple websites to sell his dangerous products to vulnerable people, has been in jail since May.

“One of the challenges we face is that many of these sites are in other countries where Canadian law does not apply,” the statement said. by Inspector Simon James of the York police force in Canada.

Law is due back in court on Dec. 19. If convicted of second-degree murder, he could face up to life in prison. one of Canada’s biggest killers.

With Post cables