and became so weak he was pushed around in a pram. On the day of his death, when he could not talk or open his eyes, participants at the workshop slapped his arms to wake him up.
Xiao's first trial heard he taught "paida lajin" workshops, a type of slapping and stretching, as a form of Chinese alternative medicine. "He told the audience that in respect of insulin, it could be generated by slapping and stretching," Crown prosecutor Sharon Harris said last year. "There was no alternative to insulin. It was insulin keeping [the boy] alive."
Hong Chi Xiao, right, has been found guilty of manslaughter after a six-year-old died, bottom left, following a"slapping healing" workshop.The first trial heard Xiao told the boy's mother that she should not give him any more insulin, because "medicine is poison, Western medicine cannot cure you".