Slapping healer should have learned from six-year-old’s death, UK court told

Xiao took no action to get help for Danielle Carr-Gomm (pictured) despite the ‘cruel lesson’ of the boy’s death, the jury was told. Photograph: Wiltshire police

An alternative healer accused of the manslaughter of a woman with diabetes who died after she stopped taking insulin at his slapping therapy retreat should have learned a “cruel lesson” from the death of a six-year-old boy who lost his life after a previous workshop, a jury has heard.

Hongchi Xiao, 61, of Cloudbreak, California, is on trial at Winchester crown court accused of the manslaughter by gross negligence of Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, from Lewes, East Sussex.