Poison (2024 UPDATE) - Kenneth Law in the dock (Pt 5)
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Warning, this episode contains discussions about suicide.
A year on from the original series, James sits down with his producer, Will, to go over all the latest developments on the case, as Kenneth Law is expected to go on trial in 2025 accused of 14 counts of murder.
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| 1:08.0 | Before we begin, the following podcast contains discussions about suicide. If you or anyone you know may be affected by this, there's a link in the episode notes to the Samaritan's website and phone |
| 1:14.6 | number and do consider if you should continue listening. Hi, James here. It's been over a year since we released the last episode of Poison. |
| 1:30.0 | Going back to May 2023, at that point Kenneth Law had just been arrested and charged on two counts of aiding or counseling suicide. |
| 1:40.0 | Those two charges have since been upgraded. |
| 1:43.0 | Law is due to go on trial in Canada next year, |
| 1:46.0 | charged with 14 counts of first-degree murder. I've continued to report on Kenneth Law and those affected by the poison he was allegedly selling. |
| 2:00.0 | And now we have an update for you. |
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