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Alternative healer gets 10 years in UK prison for death at slap therapy workshop

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An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during his workshop

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