{"id":592292,"date":"2026-04-18T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:18:08","slug":"canadian-man-kenneth-law-to-plead-guilty-in-suicide-kit-case-to-avoid-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/592292\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian man Kenneth Law to plead guilty in suicide kit case to avoid murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Canadian man accused of helping 14 \u2060people in the province \u2060of Ontario kill themselves by selling a \u2060legal but deadly substance online will avoid a murder trial by pleading guilty to lesser charges, his lawyer said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kenneth Law, 60, will plead guilty to counselling or aiding suicide under a deal with Crown prosecutors that will see more serious \u200cfirst-degree murder charges withdrawn, Matthew Gourlay of Henein Hutchison Robitaille said in an email.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Law\u2019s case is scheduled to return to court in Newmarket, Ontario, north of Toronto, on Monday. His plea will be entered at a later date, Gourlay said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gourlay declined further comment. Ontario\u2019s Ministry of the Attorney General did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Law is facing 14 counts of \u2060first-degree murder and 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide related to 14 victims, all Ontario residents between \u200cthe ages of 16 and 36 who died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"York Regional Police Inspector Simon James speaks during a news conference on Kenneth Law\u2019s case in Mississauga, Ontario, in August 2023. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/64f02dae-dcc9-4d23-8800-6c420587c561_53261468.jpg\" title=\"York Regional Police Inspector Simon James speaks during a news conference on Kenneth Law\u2019s case in Mississauga, Ontario, in August 2023. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP\"\/>York Regional Police Inspector Simon James speaks during a news conference on Kenneth Law\u2019s case in Mississauga, Ontario, in August 2023. Photo: The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Canadian police allege Law, a former cook at a Toronto hotel, operated several websites starting around \u200c2020 through which he marketed and sold a toxic salt and other items, including masks \u2060and hoods, that could \u2060be used for self-harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canadian man accused of helping 14 \u2060people in the province \u2060of Ontario kill themselves by selling a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,7676,103,32029,258472,258470,5425,258473,258471,258476,258474,258475,3,2432,258477,12378,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-592292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-criminal-code","tag-henein-hutchison-robitaille","tag-hong-kong","tag-kenneth-law","tag-matthew-gourlay","tag-mental-health-support-hotline","tag-national-crime-agency","tag-newmarket","tag-news","tag-ontario","tag-the-samaritans","tag-toronto","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}