‘It was too easy’: families ask how Kenneth Law enabled so many suicides
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Kenneth Law, a sixty-year-old Canadian man linked to at least 131 deaths worldwide, pleaded guilty on Friday to his involvement in fourteen fatal poisonings.
肯尼斯·勞，一名與全球至少 131 起死亡事件有關的六十歲加拿大男子，週五承認參與了十四起致命中毒案。
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Law had operated a network of digital storefronts through which he sold toxic substances to vulnerable individuals across more than forty countries.
勞曾經營一個數位店面網絡，並透過該網絡向四十多個國家的弱勢群體販售有毒物質。
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Investigators in Ontario revealed that he shipped over 1,200 packages from a local post office, with the vast majority destined for the United Kingdom and the United States.
安大略省的調查人員透露，他從當地一家郵局寄出了 1,200 多個包裹，其中絕大多數是寄往英國和美國的。
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Among Law's victims was Aimee Walton, a young woman from Southampton who loved music and art.
在勞的受害者中，有一位是來自修咸頓、熱愛音樂與藝術的年輕女子艾米·沃爾頓。
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She had been groomed by another user on an online forum that glorified suicide before purchasing a lethal substance from Law in 2022.
在 2022 年向勞購買致命物質之前，她曾在一個美化自殺的網路論壇上受到另一名用戶的誘騙。
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Had authorities intervened sooner, her family argued, she might still be alive today.
她的家人主張，要是當局早點介入，她今天可能還活著。
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Monday would have marked her twenty-fifth birthday, a milestone that now serves as a painful reminder of institutional failure.
週一原本會是她的二十五歲生日，這個里程碑如今成了對體制失敗的痛苦提醒。
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Bereaved families have long maintained that their warnings about online harm were dismissed by both police and government officials.
喪親家屬長期以來一直堅持認為，他們對網路危害的警告被警方和政府官員所忽視。
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Their frustration has now solidified into a formal demand for a comprehensive public inquiry into digital safety regulation.
他們的沮喪現在已凝聚成一項要求對數位安全法規進行全面公開調查的正式訴求。
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They are asking how pro-suicide forums, where vulnerable people are actively groomed and lethal substances brazenly marketed, have been permitted to operate unchecked.
他們正在詢問，為何那些鼓吹自殺的論壇——在那裡弱勢群體被積極誘騙，且致命物質被公然販售——竟被允許在不受監管的情況下運作。
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Equally pressing is the question of how one individual managed to exploit a loosely regulated market for so long.
同樣緊迫的問題是，一個人如何能夠如此長期地利用一個監管鬆散的市場。
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Advocates for suicide prevention have emphasised that the case exposes critical gaps in international cooperation and online oversight.
自殺預防倡導者強調，此案暴露了國際合作與網路監管中的關鍵漏洞。
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Were governments to implement stricter cross-border monitoring of suspicious shipments, such tragedies could potentially be averted.
若各國政府能對可疑貨物實施更嚴格的跨境監測，這類悲劇或許就能避免。
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The sheer scale of Law's operation, which some commentators have described as unprecedented in modern British history, underscores the urgent need for institutional accountability.
勞的行動規模之大，被一些評論員描述為英國現代史上前所未有的，這凸顯了對機構問責的迫切需求。
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Not only must digital platforms be held responsible, but postal and customs authorities should also face scrutiny for failing to detect the sustained trafficking of harmful substances.
數位平台不僅必須承擔責任，郵政和海關當局也應因未能偵測到持續性的有害物質販運而面臨審查。