An alternative healer failed to get medical help as a 71-year-old diabetic woman lay dying while attending a workshop he led which “evangelised” a slapping therapy as an alternative to life-saving insulin medication, a court has heard.
She had first joined a Paida Lajin workshop – which means “slap and stretch” – run by the defendant in Bulgaria in July 2016. He continued: “He knew that Mrs Carr-Gomm was risking death, and he knew that he had an influence over her decision.“ Mr Atkinson said that both the child’s death and the incident in Bulgaria “would have made abundantly clear to him that her life was increasingly in danger”.
"By the time that such medical aid was finally called on day 4, October 20, 2016, it was too late, and Danielle Carr-Gomm had died of diabetic ketoacidosis as a direct result of the decision to stop taking her insulin injections.“