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Healer jailed for selling 'cancer cure'

An alternative therapist who sold a treatment machine to a dying man
falsely claiming it would "kill" his cancer was jailed for 12 months
today.

Reginald Gill, 69, of Wilson Road, Bournemouth, was convicted of
making a false statement about services provided to terminally ill
Stephen Hall on May 10, 2002, and supplying goods with a false
description on May 17, 2002.

Sentencing Gill, Recorder Lorraine Morgan said: "Mr Hall was a man in
his early forties.

"A man in the prime of his life when he received the diagnosis that he
was suffering from a most severe form of cancer. One can only imagine
the fear he must have felt.

"You exploited that fear for your own financial gain."

She added: "On your false claims you must have filled the last months
of his life with false hope while you were taking his money.

"You denied Mr Hall the brief opportunity to come to terms with his
fate."

Healer sold machine for £2,500

The trial at Bournemouth Crown Court earlier heard how Gill provided
four treatments to 43-year-old Mr Hall, a voice coach of Flint, North
Wales, using an IFAS high frequency treatment machine.

He then sold the machine, which emits a high frequency electric
current at a low voltage, to Mr Hall for £2,500, having bought it from
an Australian company for under £200, the court had heard.

Mr Hall's condition worsened and he died 10 weeks later, leaving his
widow Rhiannon.

The Recorder described the case as "most curious and unusual".

She told Gill: "When I first began to hear this case, I considered and
wondered if you might be a sincere but misguided eccentric.

"As the evidence has developed I did change my view.

"I find that in your evidence you demonstrated a disturbing level of
callousness and cynicism towards Mr Hall."

Gill, a former Royal Marine, denied he had told Mr Hall the machine
would cure his cancer. He claimed he told him it would help the body
heal itself.

Warning to 'alternative healers'

Mr Hall's mother, Sheila Cracknell, said outside court that the case
would serve as a warning to "so-called alternative healers".

"My message to other so-called alternative healers is we are on your
case," she said.

"If you provide false hope to people with terminal illnesses, be aware
of the sentence that was just passed on Mr Gill."

She added: "I feel justice was more than done today. I think the judge
gave considered thought to a very difficult case.

"My son was denied the chance to come to terms with his illness
because of the false hope.

"I have come to terms with the fact my son died. What we wanted to do
was save other families from going through the horrendous time that we
had."

Gill, speaking outside court before he was sentenced, said he had
trained in "healing and nutrition" while working as a hospital cook
and nutritionist in the army.

He said: "I never use the word cure. The body is metabolic. If you
find deficiencies in the body and understand that it's the body that
does the healing."

Gill said both he and his wife were disabled and that he would appeal
if he received a jail sentence.

He said: "I am appealing. I have got a new solicitor. The prosecution
told a pack of lies - the cost of the machine at £200. I paid 4,800
dollars (£2,630) with a discount."

The case against the self-proclaimed "traditional healer", formerly of
Poole, Dorset, came to court after a complaint was made to the Medical
Devices Agency and Poole Borough Council's trading standards
department

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