Anger at decision not to extradite Canadian suicide kit supplier to face UK justice

Bereaved families whose loved ones were the victims of an online supplier of suicide kits say they feel insulted by a decision not to prosecute him in the UK. Kenneth Law was due to appear in court on Friday in Ontario, Canada, accused of selling 1,200 suicide packages across 40 countries, including the UK. He is expected to plead guilty to charges of aiding suicide and to admit sending products internationally in the knowledge they were likely to be used to end lives. Last month his lawyers confirmed a plea agreement under which previous murder charges would be withdrawn. An investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) into Canadian websites found that 286 individuals had received packages in the UK, leading to 112 deaths. A day before Law’s court appearance, the NCA and the Crown Prosecution Service told bereaved families they would not be seeking to extradite the 60-year-old to the UK after legal proceedings in Canada had concluded. Aimee Walton, left, who died in 2022 after buying one of the suicide kits from Law’s website, with her sister Adele. Photograph: Adele Walton Adele Zeynep Walton , the sister of 21-year-old Aimee, from Southampton, who died in 2022 after buying one of the suicide kits from Law’s website, said: “It’s absolutely insane that the NCA and CPS are not going to do anything about it. …