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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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[โ€“] 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,โ€ prosecutor Duncan Atkinson said.

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