An alternative healer jailed over the death of a woman at one of his workshops has been released from prison just 18 months into a 10-year sentence, it is understood. Hongchi Xiao, 63, from California, was convicted and sentenced in 2024 for the manslaughter by gross negligence of 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm in 2016. In his judgment, Lord Justice Dingemans said it seemed Xiao had been returned to the US on 2 July through the Early Removal Scheme. This enables eligible foreign national offenders to be deported from the UK once they have served the minimum required proportion of their sentence. "This government is deporting foreign national offenders at pace, with more than 5,000 deported last year, and Hongchi Xiao is prohibited from ever returning to the UK."