Second manslaughter conviction for alternative healer after death of six-year-old diabetic boy

Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao was previously prosecuted over the death of a six-year-old diabetic boy in Australia after he instructed the youngster’s parents to stop giving him his insulin medication, his trial was told (Crown Prosecution Service/PA)

Alternative healer Hongchi Xiao was previously prosecuted over the death of a six-year-old diabetic boy in Australia after he instructed the youngster’s parents to stop giving him his insulin medication, his trial was told.

Xiao’s trial for the manslaughter of Danielle Carr-Gomm, who died in Wiltshire in October 2016, heard that he was convicted of manslaughter by an Australian court in that case.