‘Slapping therapist’ Hongchi Xiao found guilty over UK woman’s death
- Danielle Carr-Gomm, who is diabetic, stopped taking insulin while attending a workshop with Xiao, who considers the medication a ‘poison’
A “slapping therapist” from California with a history of considering insulin medication a “poison” was convicted on Friday over the death of a diabetic woman who attended one of his UK workshops.
The case is the second time Hongchi Xiao, 61, has been convicted in similar circumstances, following the death of a six-year-old diabetic boy in Australia in 2015.
Xiao, from Cloudbreak in the United States, and who was born in China, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence following a trial at a court in Winchester, southern England.
The court heard that the victim, 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm, had been taking part in the workshop in a bid to help her diabetes in October 2016.
She died as a result of having stopped taking her insulin medication during a three-day fast organised by Xiao.
Prosecutors told the court he had previously been prosecuted and sentenced to nine years and six months’ jail in Australia after he instructed the parents of an Australian child to stop giving him insulin.