'It has broken us as a family,' mother of poison seller victim tells hearing
"Samuel was just 19 when he was handed the tools that ended his precious life."She continued: "It has broken me completely and utterly. It has broken us as a family and me as a mother. "Our son died alone at university 100 miles away from his family.
- ▪"Samuel was just 19 when he was handed the tools that ended his precious life."She continued: "It has broken me completely and utterly.
- ▪It has broken us as a family and me as a mother.
- ▪"Our son died alone at university 100 miles away from his family.
BBC News — UK publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under news. We currently carry 1,248 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | BBC News — UK |
| Canonical URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20ldvx9xlxo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:49:46 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T18:15:28.387Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T18:15:28.387Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 2JthZEyOcbfT · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
'It has broken us as a family,' mother of poison seller victim tells hearingImage source, Cornish FamilyImage caption, Danielle Cornish died after taking poison sold by Canadian Kenneth LawByDan SalesPublished24 September 2026, 18:28 BSTUpdated 25 minutes agoThe mother of a British victim of poison seller Kenneth Law has said his death and the way that he died had "destroyed" their family.Tanya Whitaker broke down at the start of her video statement about the death of her son, Samuel, shown on the second day of a four-day sentencing hearing of Law in Ontario, saying: "He barely had a chance."The University of Warwick student was found collapsed outside his halls after taking poison sold by Law, who has admitted 14 counts of aiding suicide in Canada but has also been linked to nearly 80…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at BBC News — UK.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from BBC News — UK
