Quack back in jail for 3rd time for student’s death
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HU Wanlin, who had previously served jail terms twice for “concoctions” that he claimed could cure diseases but led to deaths, was again sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday — for the same crime.
It wasn’t even three years since he was last released from prison after serving 11 years and two months of his previous 15-year sentence. But he was back in, and this time he was also fined 200,000 yuan (US$32,675.47) by the Luoyang City Intermediate People’s Court of central China’s Henan Province for the death of a young college student.
Hu was first sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in 1982. In 1994, while in jail, he started treating his cell mates but in two years 14 prisoners died after being treated by him. The prison authority had to actually issue a notice banning Hu from “practicing” medicine.
Despite that, Hu was released in 1997.
Hu shot to fame in 1998 when a book on traditional Chinese medicine described him as an “omnipotent doctor” with “his eyes as good as an X-Ray and CT!” The book, penned by famous author Ke Yunlu, claimed Hu had cured 6,400 cancer patients, made 5,420 deaf people hear, and treated 1,200,000 patients.
But his luck ran out in September 1998, when Liu Faming, the mayor of Luohe City in Henan, died after trying out one of Hu’s concoctions. Hu had given Liu a cup of Glauber’s salt solution, saying it was elixir. Liu died and Hu was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 2000.
He was released on December 2011, and continued to promote himself as a “doctor.” He met Lu Wei and made him one of his “disciples.”
Lu created a blog on popular social networking site Sina.com. He claimed Hu’s “five-flavored treatments” could cure diseases like diabetes, leukemia, AIDS and even cancer.
In August 2013, Lu and two others Tang Mengjun and He Guizh organized more than 12 people to join Hu’s health program in Xin’an County in Luoyang.
Hu asked the participants to drink the “five-flavored soup” made from coffee, sugar, salt, soy sauce and vinegar and then asked them to drink lots of water. The concoction would “spur nausea” that supposedly would help in “detoxifying their bodies.” But unfortunately for him, a young university student Yun Xuchao died after drinking the soup. An autopsy revealed Yun had consumed mirabilite.
Hu and his “disciples” were arrested in September 2013. During his trial, Hu maintained he did not give mirabilite to Yun.
Lu was sentenced to 11 years in jail and fined 100,000 yuan while Tang was sentenced to three years and fined 30,000 yuan. He Guizhi was not found guilty and released. The court ordered the four to pay a compensation of 85,889 yuan to Yun’s family for economic losses.
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