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An alternative healer has been jailed for 10 years after a court found him guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Video shows alternative healer using 'slapping therapy'
Hongchi Xiao, 61, of Cloudbreak in California, was convicted after Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, died from complications related to diabetes in 2016. An alternative healer has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin at his slapping therapy workshop.
She stopped taking her insulin during a slapping Wiltshire workshop hosted by Xiao in 2016. Ms Carr-Gomm quickly became unwell before falling into a diabetic coma. Danielle Carr-Gomm died in October 2016 while taking part in the Paida Lajin therapy event, which sees patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly.
Mr Justice Robert Bright said: "She was youthful and vigorous with a lot of life left to live. Her untimely death was a tragedy." Hongchi Xiao, of Cloudbreak, California, was convicted by a jury in July at Winchester Crown Court of manslaughter by gross negligence after he failed to get medical help for Mrs Carr-Gomm at the event in Wiltshire.
Xiao will also have to serve five years on extended licence. He was also sentenced to a further five years on extended licence after his time in prison.
He added Xiao will be liable to be deported to America after serving his sentence. The 61-year-old was extradited for the trial from Australia, where he had previously been prosecuted after a six-year-old boy also died when his parents withdrew his insulin medication after attending the defendant's workshop in Sydney.
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Follow BBC Wiltshire on Facebook, external, X, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to us on email or via WhatsApp on 0800 313 4630. Ms Carr-Gomm died at Cleeve House in Seend, Wiltshire, in October 2016 while taking part in the Paida Lajin therapy event, which sees patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly.
Mrs Carr-Gomm, from Lewes in East Sussex, had Type 1 diabetes, meaning she had to take insulin every day to keep her blood glucose levels under control.
Yet she had a lifelong fear of needles and had frequently sought other ways to deal with the disease.
Paida Lajin, which means "slapping and stretching" is a therapy in which people slap themselves and others in order to expel toxins from the body.
Ms Carr-Gomm believed it worked and delivered glowing testimonials, the court previously heard.
Danielle Carr-Gomm's fear of needles is what drove her to finding alternative remedies
Sentencing Xiao on Friday, Mr Bright said: "You congratulated her [Danielle] when you found out she had stopped taking insulin.
"You failed to summon emergency medical care when you of all people knew she was likely to die without insulin."
He added that Xiao did "not present a danger" to anyone save outside of those who believed in his type of therapy, which is called Paida Lajin.
"I believe you will continue to practice it. There is a risk you will actively or tacitly encourage followers to reduce their medication.
"Letters from your supporters and the undiminished belief they and you have in Paida Lajin make me apprehensive.
"I'm concerned history may repeat itself and this presents a risk to the public. In this specific regard I consider you dangerous."