Kenneth Lowe’s trial has been postponed until 2026

The trial of an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used them to take their own lives has been postponed until next year.

Kenneth Law will now stand trial on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and aiding and abetting suicide beginning in January 2026, and the trial is expected to last eight weeks.

His trial was originally scheduled to begin in September, but court documents say it was delayed this week amid an upcoming appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in a separate case that “directly affects this charge.”

The Supreme Court agreed to expedite the appeal, a move requested by prosecutors given the law’s ramifications for the upcoming trial.

The Crown is appealing an Ontario superior court ruling that suggested a person could only be held liable for murder if he supplied a lethal substance to the person who committed suicide and “overrode the will of the victim in choosing to commit suicide.”

Police alleged that Law operated several websites used to sell sodium nitrite and other substances that could be used for self-harm, sending them to people in more than 40 countries.

They said that all the charges against him refer to the same 14 people aged between 16 and 36.

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, you can get support 24/7 by calling or texting 988, Canada’s national suicide prevention hotline.