{"id":9794,"date":"2026-04-18T22:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/9794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:41:13","slug":"a-canadian-man-facing-14-murder-charges-will-plead-guilty-to-aiding-suicide-his-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/9794\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian man facing 14 murder charges will plead guilty to aiding suicide, his lawyer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, British Colombia (AP) \u2014 A Canadian man facing murder charges for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/canada-kenneth-law-suicide-sodium-nitrite-6ad6ec02b711cd2f4cb9e49006d81276\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly selling lethal substances online<\/a> to people at risk of self-harm has agreed to plead guilty to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide, his lawyer said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Canadian prosecutors will withdraw all 14 murder charges filed against Kenneth Law, lawyer Matthew Gourlay told The Associated Press in a email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plea will be to the charges of aiding suicide,\u201d he said in an email. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation first reported the plea.<\/p>\n<p>Law will make a virtual appearance by Zoom before a Newmarket, Ontario, court on Monday afternoon for the purpose of further scheduling, Gourlay said. The plea and the sentencing will take place at a later date. <\/p>\n<p>Calls to Ontario\u2019s Ministry of the Attorney General weren&#8217;t immediately answered.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian police say Law, from the Toronto area, used a series of websites to market and sell sodium nitrite, a substance commonly used to cure meats that can be deadly if ingested. They say he is suspected of sending at least 1,200 packages to more than 40 countries. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities in the United States, Britain, Italy, Australia and New Zealand also have launched investigations.<\/p>\n<p>It is against the law in Canada for someone to recommend suicide, although assisted suicide has been legal since 2016 for people aged at least 18. Any adult with a serious illness, disease or disability may seek help in dying, but they must ask for assistance from a physician.<\/p>\n<p>Law has been in custody since his arrest at his Mississauga, Ontario, home in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Canadian Criminal Code, abetting suicide carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. A murder conviction automatically means life in prison, with no chance of parole for at least 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press writer Rob Gillies reported from San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Colombia (AP) \u2014 A Canadian man facing murder charges for allegedly selling lethal substances online to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2349,17,374,47,592,2128,5428,5417,5044,5045,218],"class_list":{"0":"post-9794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-i","15":"tag-indictments","16":"tag-law-enforcement","17":"tag-suicide","18":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}