Kenneth Law of Mississauga, Ont., will plead guilty to charges of counselling or assisting suicide, while murder charges against him are to be dropped, according to his lawyer.
Law is accused of running websites between 2020 and May 2023 to sell sodium nitrate and other substances used for self-harm. Police allege that Law sold the items to people in more than 40 countries through at least five online companies.
On May 2, 2023, Law, 57 at the time, was arrested and charged with two counts of counselling or aiding suicide after two deaths in the Regional Municipality of Peel in Ontario. The arrest followed an operation involving investigators from Canada, Australia, Britain, the United States, Italy, and New Zealand….