Families recount pain as Canadian suicide poison seller faces sentencing

Kenneth Law, a Canadian man, faces sentencing for aiding in the deaths of 14 people who used poison he sold online. Families of the victims gave emotional accounts in court, recounting their pain and loss. Some looked Law in the eye, with one man warning he would be vigilant in case Law ever tried to sell poison again.

The relatives of those who died described the devastating impact of their loved ones' deaths. Maria Lopez, the mother of Jeshennia Bedoya-Lopez, who died in 2022 at 18, said she cannot stop thinking that her daughter will never come back. The girl's father, Leonardo, added that the future they had imagined as a family disappeared.

Law sold poison to people in at least 41 countries, including China, France, and Brazil, and 330 packages to people in the UK. He had pleaded guilty in May to aiding in the suicide of 14 people in Canada. According to the National Post, some family members voiced anger that Law would not face trial for murder.

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