Suicides: Kenneth Law’s trial expected to begin in September 2025

This is what the judicial authorities indicated last week to the families of the alleged victims, according to information obtained by the English network of Radio-Canada.

The trial is expected to last eight weeks and extend until the end of October.

Ontarian Kenneth Law, according to police, operated websites selling sodium nitrite to suicidal people (new window) pretty much everywhere in the world.

This substance is used legally as a food preservative, but it can be lethal in high doses.

According to Toronto criminal lawyer Ingrid Grant, it is a complex case. The Crown, and this is possibly a precedent, will have the challenge of proving that these are murders.notes the lawyer.

The lawyer for Kenneth Law, 58, has already indicated that his client will plead not guilty to charges of premeditated murder (new window).

Me Matthew Gourlay adds that no trial date has been confirmed to him for the moment.

The alleged victims

The families of Jeshennia Bedoya-Lopez of Aurora, 18, Ashtyn Prosser, 19, of Windsor, and 21-year-old Toronto resident Stephen Mitchell Jr. have confirmed their loved one is among Kenneth Law’s alleged victims in Ontario.

In addition to the Peel Regional Police near Toronto, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), as well as the police forces of Calgary and Longueuil, in particular, have opened investigations. (new window) on deaths possibly linked to the Ontarian, as have British police.

I know he’s on trial in Canada, but I wish that was the case here too [au Royaume-Uni]says Sarah Dornford-May, whose 28-year-old stepson Adam Birch died in 2023. He would also have been a client of Kenneth Law, according to the police.

For Ms Dornford-May, there should be stricter regulations surrounding the sale of sodium nitrite.

Based on information provided by CBC’s Thomas Daigle