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.
