Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao, from California, is on trial accused of the manslaughter by gross negligence of 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm.
Danielle Carr-Gomm, 71, had been attending an event promoting Paida Lajin therapy in Wiltshire in 2016
Duncan Atkinson KC, prosecuting, told the jury that Mrs Carr-Gomm had sought alternatives to her insulin medication for Type 1 diabetes because of her vegetarianism and fear of needles. Mr Atkinson described how one of the participants saw that Mrs Carr-Gomm, by the Tuesday, “was vomiting and observed that her condition was similar to that on the earlier occasion in Bulgaria when she had stopped her insulin injections”.
The prosecutor said: “He identifies the signs of a healing crisis as including pain, vomiting, insomnia, giddiness and loud crying. The prosecutor said that after Xiao was arrested, he said in interview that he had believed Mrs Carr-Gomm had been weak from fasting and had not needed an ambulance. “He knew of his influence over her, he knew the consequences of her not taking her insulin, and he had at least influenced and encouraged her decision to take the potentially fatal step of stopping her insulin.”
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