Canadian police have arrested and charged a Toronto man believed to have sold over 1,000 suicide kits in about 40 countries, including Italy .
Kenneth Law, 57, a self-styled chef, is charged with counseling and assisting in suicide and admitted to selling the kits over the Internet. Among the people who died after wearing a sodium nitrite-based face mask, contained in the kit, is a 63-year-old teacher from the province of Trento who was found lifeless in her apartment .
The investigation, police said, began after the sudden death of a person in Toronto who had ingested a lethal substance.
The name of the Italian victim appears on the list of nine people indicated by the Canadian Interpol as clients of the self-styled chef from Ontario . In Italy the kit, as well as from the Trentino teacher, was purchased by 8 other people residing in the provinces of Rome, Milan, Naples, Monza, Lecco, Caserta, Bologna and Pavia. People who have all been traced by the police force and who are all well . In total Law would have sold around 1,200 kits online in 40 different countries .
From the first information, the woman was found in her bed, with a letter next to her explaining how she had managed to take her own life and a note intended for family members, in which she said she was sorry for the gesture and explained: " I'm too sick, too pain, I had no other choice .'
(Unioneonline/L)
