‘Slapping therapy’ healer ‘failed to get help’ for dying diabetic woman | UK News [Video]

A diabetic woman died after an alternative therapist persuaded her to stop taking insulin, a court has heard.

Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, looked for other treatments for her condition due to her fear of needles. She flew from her home in Lewes, East Sussex, heard about Hongchi Xiao and flew to see him in Bulgaria in July 2016.

Following that visit, she stopped taking her insulin, making her seriously unwell. She also started vomiting and she was hard to reason with – her loved ones had to beg her to start taking insulin again and she recovered.

But then in October that year, she went to a retreat hosted in Seend, Wiltshire, by Xiao, 61, who was described in the programme for the event as ‘Master Xiao’.

There he evangalised Paida Lajin therapy as a replacement for insulin, and Danielle described him as a ‘messenger sent by God’.

Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson …