Alternative healer jailed over diabetic woman’s death

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Alternative healer, Hongchi Xiao, 61, has been jailed for 10 years at Winchester Crown Court for the manslaughter of a type 1 diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin at his slapping therapy workshop. Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, died at Cleeve House in Seend, Wiltshire, in October 2016 while taking part in the Paida Lajin therapy event, which sees patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:30You claimed that your method would cure nearly all diseases,

00:34perhaps all of them.

00:36You specifically claimed that your method could treat

00:39and cure diabetes, including type 1 diabetes.

00:44In assessing your culpability, first,

00:47I regard this as a case where you continued

00:50in your breach of duty to Daniel Kar-Gom

00:53in the face of her obvious suffering over several days.

00:59Second, the offence was particularly serious

01:02because of the very high risk of death which you knew of.

01:06You must have been actively conscious of this risk

01:09in the light of the death of Aidan Fenton in Australia

01:13some 16 months earlier

01:15and also in the light of the near death of Mrs Kar-Gom herself

01:19in Bulgaria just three months earlier.

01:23This was blatant disregard of a very high risk of death.

01:28I consider you dangerous, even though you do not share

01:31the characteristics of most other dangerous offenders.

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