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Canadian 'poison seller' Kenneth Law faces more charges (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/world

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Police in Canada have brought an additional 12 charges against a man accused of supplying a poisonous chemical to people who died by suicide.

Detectives were "sharing information with law enforcement on a global scale", he said, adding: "We will not tolerate criminal actions by those who prey on vulnerable people in our communities."

Canadian detectives said Mr Law had run a number of websites offering equipment and substances to help people end their lives.

The charges come days after the National Crime Agency (NCA) in London said Mr Law was known to have sent packages to 272 people in the UK.

His father David Parfett told BBC News last week that he was angry at the failures of police to stop the trade in dangerous substances.

"It's important for families to understand what has happened and why policing worldwide allowed this scale of deaths despite clear warning signs," he said.

The original article contains 374 words, the summary contains 151 words. Saved 60%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] notatoad 4 points 1 year ago

“His father” in this summary refers to the father of one of the victims, not the father of the man accused of selling poison to suicidal people.

[–] Stilicho 1 points 1 year ago

This bs made it impossible to buy sodium nitrite, which is a very useful reagent as an amateur chemist. Like really can't we just start blaming the people that use chemicals irresponsibly instead of the chemicals themselves, like they're some anthropomorphic inherent evil out to get you.