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 number.

And do consider if you should continue listening.

I'm listening back to part of the 999 call.

And Tom Puffett's body was found at a hotel near London.

Mr Tom Puffett is spelled P-A-R-S-E-L-T.

Tom was 22 when he died on the 28th of October in 2021.

After his death, his father, David Puffett,

wasn't given much information except that Tom had ingested a substance.

I wanted to understand how my son had found a substance that allowed him to take his own life.

And the main reason for doing that was not out of curiosity for Tom and what he went through,

but more how an earth in this day and age can we let that happen.

David later discovered Tom had bought a lethal poison on a website operated from Canada.

Not on the dark web, just a normal web address as if you were shopping on a normal website.

You've got a poison entering this country, it will kill you, and it's allowed to happen.

So what's going on and who's behind this website?

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and Sunday Times.

I'm James Beale, social affairs editor at the Times.

This is poison, a three-part podcast series about the suicide of a young British man

and the questions it raises. Part two, the man who sells death.

If you haven't yet listened to part one, I'd urge you to do so.

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