Mr Pengelly Plays the Persecution Card

From Mr Pengelly's new, bowdlerized website:

"It appears I am the first healer to ever be prosecuted for 'taking part in an advertisement offering to treat any person for cancer'..."

Prosecutions under the Cancer Act of 1939 are probably rare, and there's an obvious reason for this.  Before Trading Standards can take anyone to court they have to issue verbal and written warnings, which in the vast majority of cases result in the actionable material being removed immediately and no legal action being taken.  Mr Pengelly chose to ignore these warnings and had to suffer the consequences.

I personally know of three medically unqualified people who offered to treat cancer patients and claimed to have "successfully treated" the illness: "psychic surgeon" Gary Mannion, Wiltshire-based "healer" Nina Knowland and an Edinburgh woman calling herself "Robin Reiki".  I reported all three to their local Trading Standards offices, and in every case they altered their websites after a warning.