A Mississauga, Ont., man accused of selling deadly products online to people at risk of self-harm has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide.
Kenneth Law entered the pleas in a Newmarket, Ont., courtroom on May 29 in connection with operating websites that sold sodium nitrate and other toxic substances between 2020 and May 2023 to people in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries.
Law was scheduled to stand trial for these charges last month along with 14 counts of first-degree murder, but his defence lawyer recently announced that the murder charges would be dismissed, and his client would instead enter a guilty plea to the lesser charges….