Kenneth Law, a 60-year-old Canadian man, pleaded guilty on May 29, 2026, to 14 counts of aiding or counselling suicide in Ontario Superior Court in Newmarket. Prosecutors withdrew 14 original murder charges against him as part of a plea agreement [1, 2, 3, 4].

Law operated several websites starting around 2020 that sold lethal doses of sodium nitrite and related products marketed for suicide. Between January 2021 and April 2023, he shipped approximately 1,200 packages worldwide to recipients in 41 countries. The shipments included nearly 330 to the UK, about 431 to the US, and roughly 160 to Canada, along with others to Australia, China, Italy, and more [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].

British officials linked Law’s products to between 73 and 112 deaths, including 79 deaths Law himself admitted to. In Ontario, investigators directly connected 14 suicides involving victims aged 16 to 36 to his sales [1, 2, 3, 5]. Some victims called emergency services after ingesting the chemicals but most died despite rescue attempts [6, 7].

Law earned an estimated 296,981 Canadian dollars from the sales, according to investigators, although some sources suggest higher figures near 700 million New Taiwan dollars (approximately 29.7 million CAD) [6, 7, 8, 9]. Before his arrest in May 2023 at his home west of Toronto, Law worked as an engineer and later as a chef at a luxury Toronto hotel [1, 2, 5].

Canadian prosecutors cited legal and evidential challenges when dropping the murder charges, saying proving causation for murder was complex. Law’s guilty plea removes the need for a murder trial, but his sentencing hearing is set for September 2026 [10, 3, 5, 11].

Victims’ family members expressed anger and frustration. David Parfett, father of victim Thomas Parfett, demanded a public inquiry, saying, "We need action across multiple government departments and unfortunately, we are not seeing that coordination and that understanding of how to address the problem today" [1]. Leonardo Bedoya, father of Jeshennia Bedoya-Lopez, said, "She was my only daughter, my light, my life," and criticized Law’s courtroom demeanor, saying, "That man does not even face the victims. He always keeps his back turned" [4].

Law used the pseudonym "Greenberg" and online suicide forums to solicit buyers and provide advice on sodium nitrite use [1, 4].

His sentencing will be determined in the hearing scheduled for September 2026 [3, 4].