'Slapping therapist' found guilty of manslaughter after woman dies at workshop

An alternative healer Hongchi Xiao has been found guilty after the death of a diabetic grandmother at his ‘slap therapy’ workshop. Mr Xiao, 61, has been found guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter that killed Danielle Carr-Gomm at a retreat in Wiltshire in 2016. The 71-year-old from Lewes, East Sussex, had attended a ‘slap and stretch’ therapy workshop in bid to find an alternative to her insulin medication for Type 1 diabetes because of her fear of needles and vegetarianism, Winchester Crown Court heard. But instead of help she died...