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Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death at slap therapy workshop (abcnews.go.com)
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[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reading the title you'd think that, but they actually died because he convinced them to stop taking their insulin.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

not just that:

Hongchi Xiao, 61, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence for failing to get medical help for Danielle Carr-Gomm as she howled in pain and frothed at the mouth during the fourth day of a workshop in October 2016.

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By day three, Carr-Gomm was "vomiting, tired and weak, and by the evening she was howling in pain and unable to respond to questions,” prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said.

so this lady was in pain and unable to respond for roughly 24 hours and they did nothing.