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Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death of woman at slap therapy workshop

An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during his workshop

The Independent UK

Alternative healer jailed for 10 years over woman’s death at slapping workshop

Hongchi Xiao, from California, was convicted of the manslaughter by gross negligence of Danielle Carr-Gomm in Wiltshire.

Evening Standard

How pensioner fell under the spell of crank healing guru she called ‘messenger sent by God’

Hongchi Xiao had styled himself as ‘Master Xiao’ with his workshop participants treated as ‘keen disciples’

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Slapping therapist ‘failed to get help as diabetic woman lay dying’ at workshop

Danielle Carr-Gomm, died at Cleeve House in Seend, Wiltshire, where she was taking part in the workshop in October 2016

The Independent UK

Post Office PR boss helped write ‘story’ that was used in prosecution of operators, inquiry hears

Wording defended faulty Horizon IT system when post office operators were wrongly accused of stealing

The Guardian - UK

Prison officers ‘left suicidal inmate in dark cell with makeshift noose’

Anthony Paine, 35, had a history of self-harm, jurors have been told.

The Independent UK

Ex grammar school boy became ISIS sniper after fleeing to Syria from family holiday

Shabazz Suleman, 27, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, disappeared at the end of the 2014 trip before emailing his parents saying “I'm not brainwashed or anything"

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Man injured woman, 82, before killing stranger in knife attack, court told

Norris Henry is said to have stabbed Elizabeth Walsh in the back before knifing 20-year-old Ali Abucar Ali fatally in the chest on November 12 2021

Evening Standard

Music manager stabbed to death for designer watch, court told

Emmanuel Odunlami, 32, was attacked near St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London on May 1 last year, the Old Bailey heard.

The Independent UK

Two soldiers sold ammunition to undercover police officer, court hears

Coldstream Guards Kirtland Gill and Rajon Graham had access to the bullets through their roles in the British Army, the jury was told.

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