‘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.