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US man sentenced over Internet suicides

Published on 05/05/2011

A 48-year-old former nurse accused of seeking out and encouraging via the Internet people who were considering suicide, was sentenced in Minnesota Wednesday 4 May. William Melchert-Dinkel was convicted in March over the deaths of a 32-year-old man from England and an 18-year-old Canadian woman. The judge yesterday ordered him to serve 320 days in ...