Summary
Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao was sentenced to 10 years in prison in the UK for manslaughter by gross negligence after Danielle Carr-Gomm, a 71-year-old diabetic woman, died during his “slapping therapy” workshop in 2016.
Xiao encouraged Carr-Gomm to stop taking insulin, leading to her severe deterioration and death on the fourth day of the retreat.
Xiao, previously convicted of manslaughter in Australia for a similar death, showed no remorse and continued promoting his unscientific therapy in prison.
The case highlights the dangers of unregulated alternative treatments.
It’s weird that he is allowed to produce courses and teach from prison, shouldn’t imprisonment prevent further attempts at teaching?
Pretty sure he is teaching the inmates. Doubt he was given unrestricted internet access or any electronics for that matter, that’s a luxury only for rich assholes.
It’s pretty important to allow unpopular voices from prisoners to reach the world, if anyone is listening.
Otherwise totalitarians can use prison more effectively to silence dissenting voices.
As a trade off, it does allow dangerous bullshit to continue to have a platform.