‘Slapping therapy’ healer failed to get help for dying diabetic woman, court hears

‘Slapping therapy’ healer failed to get help for dying diabetic woman, court hears

Hongchi Xiao denies manslaughter by gross negligence of Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, in Wiltshire in 2016

An alternative healer failed to get help for a woman with diabetes who lay dying after taking part in his “slapping therapy” workshop at a British country house, a jury has been told.

Hongchi Xiao, a champion of paida lajin therapy, in which patients are slapped or slap themselves to expel “poisonous waste”, should have sought urgent medical assistance after Danielle Carr-Gomm stopped taking insulin and fell seriously ill, the court heard.

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