A Wrexham man who sold lethal drugs online has pleaded guilty to encouraging or assisting suicide.
Last week at Mold Crown Court, Miles Cross admitted selling a chemical to four people who were seeking help online to kill themselves. One customer, 26-year-old Shubhreet Singh, committed suicide by using the substance supplied by Cross.
Assisting or encouraging a suicide is illegal in England and Wales under the 1961 Suicide Act and punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment.
Vulnerable victims
North Wales Police’s Detective Superintendent Chris Bell said: “Cross took advantage and exploited his victims in their most desperate moments, profiting off their vulnerability and mental illnesses.”
Specialist Prosecutor for the Crown Alison Storey said: “Miles Cross preyed on four people in a distressed state and knowingly provided a substance intended to end their lives.
“His actions were purely for financial gain, and he made the process of ordering the chemical online easy and accessible.”
Cross is due to be sentenced on 7 January 2026.
Grim contradiction
In September, The Christian Institute’s Director Ciarán Kelly noted how World Suicide Prevention Day served as “a global reminder that every life matters, and that those in despair deserve to be given hope, help and care.”
Writing in Evangelicals Now, he observed how the 2025 date fell just two days before the second reading of MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill in the House of Lords. He remarked: “One day we say, ‘Don’t give up,’ and the next we consider legislation to allow the NHS to give people drugs to help them end their lives.”
He added: “We encourage those experiencing mental illness to persevere, because their lives are valuable and worth living.
“Yet this bill would constitute an official declaration by the state that if you are experiencing certain combinations of physical and mental ill health, then ending your life is the rational choice. It sends a dangerous signal: that some lives are not worth living.”
Hypocrisy
Kim Leadbeater was accused of hypocrisy for attending an event focussing on suicide prevention last month. At the time she called it a “powerful reminder of the need for continued work on suicide prevention”.
Writing for The Critic, Adam James Pollock commented: “It is morally nonsensical to advocate for greater support for suicide prevention while simultaneously spearheading the campaign to legislate for suicide to be provided by the National Health Service on behalf of the state.”
So moving to visit the ‘Speak Their Name’ exhibition in Parliament. The beautiful quilts are created by families & friends in loving memory of someone they’ve lost to suicide. A powerful reminder of the need for continued work on suicide prevention: https://t.co/XvzgTadokI pic.twitter.com/XNfFgaIj5e
— Kim Leadbeater MBE MP (@kimleadbeater) October 15, 2025
More recently, she also made a show of appearing to support the hospice sector, though earlier this year she voted in Parliament against an amendment which would allow hospices to opt out of providing assisted suicides on their premises.
For those who think you can’t possibly care about giving terminally ill people choice in their dying days AND suicide prevention, this will really blow your minds – you can also care about our brilliant hospices too. We can and must do all these things #HospiceCareWeek pic.twitter.com/NmcpizEe1T
— Kim Leadbeater MBE MP (@kimleadbeater) October 16, 2025
