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

Hongchi Xiao accused of manslaughter of Danielle Carr-Gomm, who died 18 months after diabetic boy in Australia

An alternative healer accused of the manslaughter of a woman with diabetes who died after stopping 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.