{"id":23295,"date":"2026-05-29T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/it-was-too-easy-families-ask-how-kenneth-law-enabled-so-many-suicides\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:37:15","slug":"it-was-too-easy-families-ask-how-kenneth-law-enabled-so-many-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/it-was-too-easy-families-ask-how-kenneth-law-enabled-so-many-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was too easy\u2019: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bereaved relatives say they were ignored by authorities as they searched for answers over suicide forums and kits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/29\/anger-decision-not-extradite-canadian-suicide-kit-supplier-face-uk-justice\"><strong>Anger at decision not to extradite Canadian suicide kit supplier to face UK justice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monday would have been Aimee Walton\u2019s 25th birthday. But in 2022, the lover of music and art from Southampton took her own life after being groomed by another user on an online forum that glorified and enabled suicide. On Friday, 3,500 miles away, the man who sold her a toxic substance pleaded guilty in a Canadian courtroom to fatal poisonings that killed 14 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/kenneth-law-suicide-kits-murder-charges-ontario\">Kenneth Law, 60<\/a>, is linked to at least 131 deaths worldwide, after using a collection of digital storefronts to target vulnerable youth. Investigators in the province of Ontario say Law shipped more than 1,200 packages \u2013 many containing a toxic substance \u2013 from his local post office to people in more than 40 countries; the vast majority went to the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/29\/families-pro-suicide-forums-kenneth-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/df960c4d4f1ab79fe66e3ee60d464c6060620118\/1465_916_3783_3025\/master\/3783.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4f724966a688b7d208b5c0cb0e896f30\" title=\"\u2018It was too easy\u2019: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicides\" \/>Bereaved relatives say they were ignored by authorities as they searched for answers over suicide forums and kits<br \/>\nAnger at decision not to extradite Canadian suicide kit supplier to face UK justice<br \/>\nMonday would have been Aimee Walton\u2019s 25th birthday. But in 2022, the lover of music and art from Southampton took her own life after being groomed by another user on an online forum that glorified and enabled suicide. On Friday, 3,500 miles away, the man who sold her a toxic substance pleaded guilty in a Canadian courtroom to fatal poisonings that killed 14 people.<br \/>\nKenneth Law, 60, is linked to at least 131 deaths worldwide, after using a collection of digital storefronts to target vulnerable youth. Investigators in the province of Ontario say Law shipped more than 1,200 packages \u2013 many containing a toxic substance \u2013 from his local post office to people in more than 40 countries; the vast majority went to the United Kingdom and the United States. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bereaved relatives say they were ignored by authorities as they searched for answers over suicide forums and kits Anger at decision not to extradite Canadian suicide kit supplier to face UK justice Monday would have been Aimee Walton\u2019s 25th birthday. But in 2022, the lover of music and art from Southampton took her own life &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/it-was-too-easy-families-ask-how-kenneth-law-enabled-so-many-suicides\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It was too easy\u2019: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicides<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}