Healer dies after failing to treat a foot wound

A healing therapist who refused to see a doctor died after developing gangrene in his leg. Russell Jenkins injured his left foot treading on an electrical plug at his home.

The wound later became infected, but the 52-year-old shunned conventional treatment, saying his 'inner being' told him not to go to hospital.

Instead he tried treating it with honey, an ancient remedy for the treatment of infected wounds. But gangrene spread to his leg and he later died.



Doctors said that if Mr Jenkins had sought help just a few hours before he passed away he could have been saved.

Mum Eileen Jenkins told a Portsmouth inquest: 'To lose my son is devastating, absolutely.

'But the way he died, I just can't come to terms with it, when I know all it needed was a phone call for a doctor or ambulance to be called, for antibiotics, and my son would be here today.'