Poison (Pt 4) - UPDATE: Kenneth Law is arrested
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Warning, this episode contains discussions about suicide.
On Tuesday night, police in Canada announced the arrest and charge of a 57-year-old man on two counts of aiding or counselling suicide.
In this update to our three-part series, Poison, we learn more about the alleged extent of his activities.
If you or someone you know has been affected by suicide or needs to talk to someone, please get in contact with the Samaritans online https://www.samaritans.org/ or call them for free on their 24-hour helpline 116 123.
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| 0:04.3 | To inform the UK COVID-19 inquiry, |
| 0:07.3 | search every story letters. |
| 0:14.3 | Before we begin, |
| 0:15.6 | the following podcast contains discussions about suicide. |
| 0:19.4 | If you or anyone you know may be affected by this, |
| 0:22.6 | there's a link in the episode notes to the Samaritan's website and phone number, |
| 0:27.0 | and do consider if you should continue listening. |
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| 0:35.0 | Public opinion relations, Jennifer Trimble. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, hi, Jennifer. It's James Beale here from the Times newspaper. |
| 0:41.3 | How are you? |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, good, thank you. How are you? |
| 0:43.6 | I'm great, thanks. |
| 0:44.8 | Thanks for agreeing to speak to us. |
| 0:46.6 | No problem. |
| 0:52.4 | So if you, first of all, could just introduce yourself, |
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