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UK survivor of Canadian poison seller says he exploited her despair

Elisabeth Belien tells Kenneth Law's sentencing hearing she took the poison when she was just 23 years old.

BBC World

Law, a former chef, sold about 1,200 packages of toxic substances to recipients whom he met in online suicide forums

A British woman, one of the survivors of Canadian poison seller Kenneth Law, faced him in court on Wednesday to describe how he had exploited her vulnerability.

Elisabeth Belien told the four-day sentencing hearing of Law in Ontario, Canada she had been at her lowest ebb when he sold her toxic chemicals when she was just 23.

"Initially, in the months after he died, I didn't properly mourn him, because my focus was on understanding, and then exposing the harm caused by the internet platforms that allowed Law to trade suicide to kids.