Two new U.K. deaths probed for links to alleged poison seller Kenneth Law

Thomas Daigle · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 09, 2025 1:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

British authorities are investigating whether a antheral facing execution charges successful Canada — wherever helium has been successful custody for 2 years — whitethorn beryllium linked to 2 further caller deaths. 

Investigators present fishy Kenneth Law whitethorn person supplied arsenic galore arsenic 99 radical successful the U.K. with a toxic salt, oregon different items utilized to dice by suicide.

CBC News has learned the 2 caller deaths successful Britain occurred this past April and May.

Law, who worked arsenic a navigator astatine a Toronto hotel, was arrested by Peel Regional Police astatine his Mississauga, Ont., location successful May 2023. He has been successful custody ever since. 

He is charged with 14 counts of first-degree execution and 14 counts of counselling oregon aiding termination successful transportation with 14 deaths successful Ontario. Authorities person called it 1 of the largest execution cases ever prosecuted successful the province.

Law's lawyer Matthew Gourlay has said his lawsuit volition plead not blameworthy erstwhile his proceedings begins successful January.

WATCH | Police sought to intercept packages sent by Law:

Police accidental Law, 59, ran websites selling a ineligible — but perchance lethal — chemical, and different termination paraphernalia, to at-risk clients astir the world. Investigators accidental Law sent immoderate 1,200 packages to buyers successful 40 countries earlier his websites were unopen down.

Canadian authorities alerted Interpol to the perchance unsafe parcels successful the outpouring of 2023 aft Britain's Times of London archetypal reported connected Law's online sales. Officers carried retired wellness checks connected buyers successful respective countries, portion Peel constabulary sought to intercept packages already successful the mail.

The summation of 2 further deaths successful the U.K. this twelvemonth raises the imaginable that authorities did not negociate to prehend each the parcels shipped by Law earlier his arrest. 

Britain's National Crime Agency said successful a connection Wednesday it's exploring "all viable leads linked to these websites and a Canadian fishy successful bid to place grounds of crimes committed successful the U.K."

Before his arrest, Law told CBC News the allegations against him are "false."

"This has been a precise distressing experience," helium said.

A CBC News probe has recovered Law's products whitethorn beryllium linked to 133 deaths worldwide, including successful the U.S., Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, New Zealand and aggregate Canadian provinces.

The transgression charges stem from deaths crossed Ontario, including that of a 16-year-old whose individuality is covered by a work due to the fact that they were a minor.

The families of 18-year-old Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez, 19-year-old Ashtyn Prosser, and Stephen Mitchell Jr., 21, person each identified their loved ones arsenic alleged victims successful the case.

Charges could beryllium 'impossible' to prosecute

The execution charges laid against Law look to hinge connected a abstracted lawsuit earlier the Supreme Court of Canada. The apical tribunal is reviewing a ruling by Ontario's Court of Appeal which deals with the interplay betwixt execution and assisted suicide.

That ruling — involving a caregiver who injected insulin into herself, her parent and her girl — suggests a idiosyncratic whitethorn lone beryllium liable for execution if they some provided a idiosyncratic who died by termination with the lethal substance but besides "overbore the victim's freewill successful choosing suicide."

Ontario Crown lawyers reason that standard, which they contend shifts absorption onto the victim's intent from the accused's actions, whitethorn marque it practically "impossible" to prosecute cases wherever the unfortunate dies, since their intent whitethorn beryllium unknowable.

Law's lawyer said the substance shows the lawsuit against his lawsuit is "not legally viable."

A determination from the Supreme Court of Canada is expected successful the coming months.