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Becoming?The UK is becoming a nanny state.
The UK will be a censorship hell hole once they start enforcing their law. Probably best to use a VPN at all times if you’re a brit.Becoming?
A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC.
Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide and he told an undercover reporter he sends five parcels a week to the UK.
He has been supplying the same substance as Canadian Kenneth Law, who was arrested last year and is now facing 14 murder charges.
Mr Zakutenko denied the claims when challenged by the BBC.
He was tracked down to his home in Kyiv and denied that he sold the deadly chemical, which the BBC is choosing not to name.
However, our investigation found that he has been supplying the substance for years.
The chemical can legally be sold in the UK, but only to companies using it for a legitimate purpose.
Suppliers must not sell to customers unless they have carried out basic checks on what the substance is to be used for.
It can prove fatal if ingested in even small doses.
'Contemptible'
Zakutenko was described as a "contemptible and evil human being" by the family of twin sisters Linda and Sarah, who died in London last year after the Ukranian supplied them with poison.
Linda was given "easy access to a 'death kit' for a few pounds" after finding out about the seller on a well-known suicide forum, according to sister Helen Kite.
She described her sisters, 54, as "intelligent, caring and articulate".
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Ms Kite said that the lack of action by the authorities to prevent her sisters and many others getting access to the chemical was "a national disgrace".
The chemical Zakutenko sells is openly discussed on the forum used by Linda, with members advising one another on how to buy and then use it.
The chemical may be linked to more than 130 UK deaths since 2019, according to scientist Prof Amrita Ahluwalia, an expert in vascular pharmacology at Queen Mary University of London.
She analysed blood and other samples from people who had died, which were sent to her from pathologists and police around the UK.
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Prof Ahluwalia's analysis indicates more than 130 deaths could have been caused by the chemical
Of 187 tests she found 71% showed high traces of the chemical, indicating that at least 133 people may have died as a result of ingesting it.
"Something needs to be done," Prof Ahluwalia said.
"With what it's being used for, there has to be a full investigation of the issues. It has to be regulated so that its use is for its intended purposes."
Murder charges
Chef Kenneth Law was arrested in Canada in May 2023 and has now been charged with 14 counts of murder and of aiding suicide..
He is thought to have sold the chemical more than 1,200 times to buyers in 40 countries around the world and is linked to at least 93 deaths in the UK.
Our investigation found that Zakutenko has been selling the same chemical since at least November 2020.
He also offers three different prescription medicines, referred to in online suicide guides.
He even briefly promoted his service on the same suicide forum as Mr Law.
Since then, users have passed on his contact details through direct messages.
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Zakutenko was confronted in Kyiv by the BBC
We traced Zakutenko to a small flat in a Soviet-era tower block in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
We challenged him outside his local post office where he had been posting more parcels.
We asked him why he was sending a poisonous chemical to people who wanted to end their lives.
"That is a lie," he told us, before putting his hand over our camera and trying to walk away.
We know that at least one of the parcels contained the chemical because we placed an order that day and received a tracking number shortly after Zakuetenko left the post office.
When asked what he had to say to the families of the dead, he replied: "I don't understand what you are talking about".
Firmer action
David Parfett's son Tom, 22, bought the same chemical from Kenneth Law, and used it to end his life in October 2021.
Mr Parfett now campaigns to shut down the suicide forum and stop sellers like Zakutenko.
The British authorities have known about the chemical and the online trade since at least September 2020, when they were alerted by a coroner who examined the death of 23 year-old Joe Nihill.
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Tom Parfett and Joe Nihill
The coroner wrote to police, the chief coroner and a chemical supplier warning them about the lethal trade in the substance.
Since then, coroners across England have written to different government departments on at least five occasions recommending action be taken about the chemical and the suicide forum.
Mr Parfett bought a consignment from Zakutenko in December 2023 because he wanted to test the system to see if the authorities would intercept the parcel.
He had a "welfare check" from police a few days after placing the order, but he still received the chemical within weeks and did not receive another police visit.
"I still can't believe that was happening today, with everything we know now about the number of deaths," said Mr Parfett.
Similar welfare checks on UK buyers were carried out after Kenneth Law was arrested in Canada.
The National Crime Agency has confirmed that there are cases of people - who bought the substance from Law - dying after police had carried out welfare checks.
"Such cases are addressed by police forces in line with their policies and national guidelines," a spokesperson said.
Kenneth Law traded on the same forum as Zakutenko and is linked to at least 93 deaths in the UK
Mr Parfett and Ms Kite are both calling for firmer action to be taken against the forum where their loved ones Tom and Linda found out about the chemical.
Ms Kite described the site as "an abomination, preying, unimpeded by the authorities, on the most vulnerable and causing untold misery and suffering for those left behind".
The government says the new Online Safety Act, which became law last year should help restrict access to this kind of forum.
It's located at sanctioned-suicide.net.is it still possible to access the site? none of the previous links are working for me.
I can now too, but I couldn't yesterday/the day before when I was reading through the thread. Weird. Thanks!
dont you dare kill yourself you eyetalian movie loving bastard. it may not seem like it, but you've got people who care about you here on this planet, even if some of them are a bunch of internet randos you may never meet. you find yourself something worth living for on this planet and you keep that thing on your mind at all timesNow I have survived and I have no idea why. My hypothesis is that I am here to continue to suffer. To be an abused horse for the world to pass by and whip at their leisure.
life gives us hardships, various sizes. no matter how minor or major in life they are, it's our job as people to make it through these hardships. we cant let the hardships win. we persevere in spite of them because it will affect more than one person if we dont. there is something worth living for here, there are people here who care about you, i might not be able to help with everything because that's something only you have the ability to do, but you need to keep moving forwardBut I feel like I exist just to feel pain and have it continue. That is no way to live.
This may sound superficial, but know that it is absolutely true.My father was a glowie as I have said elsewhere here and in private or in relative privacy. And that's another thing that fucks with you when you have a lying manipulative father who is involved with the C.I.A. because you will never know what he did.
I can only confirm parts of it like his involvement in Jamaica in the 70's during the secret wars, Iran Contra bullshit, and definitely Haiti where I think he may have killed at least 1 person during the coup to remove Baby Doc. That was the only time he ever came close to confessing to killing someone. Those 3 things he definitely was involved in and can be confirmed by witnesses including a guy who told me his father worked with mine and saw him as a hero. He is no hero. What you read here is just the surface.
Not to mention various other examples of the depression such as realizing you have the same exact childhood as a serial killer. I see a lot of parallels with myself and Ed Gein, Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas. And you become paranoid and want to hide it because if that shit gets out there and God forbid there's a missing child near you or an active serial killer nearby because the feds will knock on your door simply because you match the profile. I even have 3 names like an assassin. All of that really fucks with you and you start to pull away.
I understand. The past can be suffocating.True but it haunts you. We know the feds watch everything like the Farms. It's been confirmed endlessly least of which by Edward Snowden. And that's another thing that fucks with you and makes you sound like a schizophrenic. Just because of my father I know that I'm being watched in some way by feds.
It's like this Alex Jones curse being placed on me.
Then when you're growing up and try to make friends, maybe you go into the shit he told me just to have something to talk about and everyone thinks you're crazy until you realize too late to not ever talk about it.
I can promise there's more life has to offer than survival. The truth is all I can do is offer you platitudes and encouragement. To see tomorrow is a chance to get an even cushier job, to have another laugh, to see something interesting. Based on the little I do know, survival is better for you than the alternative. I hope you get through this and things improve.I have tried moving forward and every time I get fucked over or some other shit happens. At one of my last jobs I lucked into something very cushy that paid okay and wasn't really customer service but kind of was. I loved it despite the hours being weird and you have to stand a lot.
Me and my fellow employees decided to apply for full-time and the company suddenly wanted to get rid of us and forced us to work in a warehouse ran by an asshole who expected you to sweep the same clean floors over and over. I tried to apply to another position at the company but guess what? Assholes' wife is in HR and denied my application and shut down my fellow employees attempts to fit hired. And you're contractor too so they just found a reason and fired my ass.
Latest job that I don't know if I still have also changed after a year and became intolerable.
You keep trying. Keep your chin up. All the bullshit. Buy you can never really succeed at life other than saying you survived. That's not much.
think of one thing that is worth living for, one thing to keep going on in spite of it all. one thing. what is it