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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tara Cobham

‘Dangerous’ alternative healer jailed over slapping therapy retreat death ‘likely to continue practice’

A judge jailing a “dangerous” alternative healer over the death of a diabetic woman at his slapping therapy workshop warned there “is a significant risk history will again repeat itself”.

Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, was “howling in pain” and “frothing at the mouth” before she died on the fourth day of the Paida Lajin therapy event in October 2016, where patients are slapped or slap themselves repeatedly.

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