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Poison (Pt 2) - The man who sells death

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The Man Who Sells Death

This is Poison looks at the death of Tom Parfitt, a talented university student. He took his own life after buying a poison on a website operated from Canada. Suicide is legal in the UK but assisting someone to kill themselves is not. The Times' James Beale looked into who was running the site and found out it was run by an engineer called Kenneth Law.

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