UK won't prosecute Canadian suicide kit supplier despite 112 deaths

112 deaths in the UK attributed to Kenneth Law's suicide kit business, with families of victims expressing profound grief and sense of injustice over prosecution decision.

Across the distance between a Canadian courtroom and 112 British graves, a question of justice has settled into something that satisfies no one. Kenneth Law, a sixty-year-old man who built a business selling death to the vulnerable, will be sentenced in Canada — and only in Canada — despite the United Kingdom bearing the heaviest share of his harm. The decision, framed by authorities as pragmatic and efficient, has instead become a mirror in which bereaved families see the limits of law when confronted with something genuinely new: the industrialised, cross-border exploitation of human despair

UK won't prosecute Canadian suicide kit supplier despite 112 deaths

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