According to a message posted at 10:52 pm on August 27, 2023, a British mother is demanding justice after discovering her daughter died while using so-called “suicide kits” allegedly made by a For sale by Canadian men. The death toll linked to Kenneth Law may have risen to more than 100.
CTV News has also learned that the investigation into Law and his employment dispute while working at the iconic Royal York Hotel in Toronto is continuing, and a new Law video has emerged.
Louise Nunn said she was devastated to learn of the death of her daughter Imogen. Imogen, who has 710,000 followers on TikTok, is known as “Deaf Immi”. Over the past two years, 88 Britons have died ordering products from Law’s website, local police said.
Nunn said she was heartbroken by the deaths of other people in the months and years preceding Imogen. She believes many lives could have been saved if authorities had acted earlier.
Britain’s National Crime Agency revealed on Friday that 272 people had ordered suicide products from a Canadian website, and 88 of them had died.
Canadian police had warned about the sites, which were allegedly run by Kenneth Rowe of Mississauga, who faces two charges of aiding and inciting suicide. Peel police said at the time of his arrest they had tracked about 1,200 products to 40 countries.
Lo, a former chef and former engineer at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, said he was not responsible for the consequences of people using his products and denied the allegations. He made a brief appearance at a bail hearing last week and remains in custody.
Imogen Nunn, also known as “Deaf Immy”, was one of 88 Britons who died after allegedly ordering products from Kenneth Rowe’s website over two years. The probable death toll linked to Ro has risen to 101, according to a CTV News tracker based on accounts from authorities, media and family members.
Many of those who died were in their 20s, according to family members. The youngest was 17-year-old Anthony Jones of Michigan. The earliest known case was that of 21-year-old Jaden, who died in February 2021, whose family said they had been to police in British Columbia nearly two years before Imogen Nunn died .
“She’s an amazing girl,” says Louise Nunn, who can also be seen in Imogen’s widely shared humorous and touching videos about hearing and mental health issues.
She said: “She loves helping people. That’s what she wants to do. She wants to share her experiences and her struggles and try to help other people and realize that it’s okay to feel bad.”
Nunn said Imogen had long struggled with her own mental health issues, including hospitalization, as she tried to integrate herself into the hearing world and the world of the deaf.
Nunn recalled that Imogen died so suddenly in January that paramedics were too late to arrive, leaving many questions. It wasn’t until months later, in a toxicology report, that Nunn was notified that authorities had found sodium nitrite in her system.
Sodium nitrite is a chemical used in meat preparation but can be deadly in high concentrations.
“We’ve never heard of this before. I don’t know anything about it,” Nunn said, adding that police contacted her in June to tell her the substance came from Canada.
“That’s what they mentioned, she found a list on one of Kenneth Rowe’s computers,” she said.
She said: “It’s so shocking. It’s so devastating. You think you’re the only one going through this, you think no one understands. But knowing there are so many other people going through this pain, It’s not something you wish would happen, and it’s not something you’d be willing to inflict on your worst enemy.”
The allegations related to the hotel’s union dispute came as a surprise to colleagues working at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel, where Rowe worked as a chef.