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The IFAS machine

Last March we brought you a shocking investigation into alternative Carmarthenshire 'therapist' Reg Gill. He is not a doctor and was falsely claiming he could treat cancer, an offence under The Cancer Act. Evidence gathered by X-Ray, together with the testimonies of two new victims, has now led to the successful prosecution of Gill and his wife Leila.

In 2004, Gill was jailed for fraud after falsely claiming he could cure a Flintshire man of pancreatic cancer. However, prison didn't stop him from preying on desperate people. Early last year, X-Ray discovered that 77 year old Reg Gill and his new wife, 35 year old Leila Gill were still selling bizarre pills and treatments to sick people at their clinic in their bungalow in Cwmduad, Carmarthenshire.
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Our researcher phoned Reg Gill with a cover story, that she feared she had bowel cancer. He advised her that this was 'easily dealt with' and invited her to his home. Two members of our team secretly filmed the consultation, where he told our researcher, "if you let me treat you, you'll walk away from here without cancer, today".

Judith Green was one of his patients. She explained, "He'd said he'd been a medical officer in the war, he seemed to be experienced, very knowledgeable." In fact, Reg Gill had been in the army catering corps and had no formal medical training.

Judith went to Reg Gill because she was suffering from an infection. She described how he made a shocking diagnosis, telling her she had cancer, "He said I was in a very bad way, he asked me to get undressed".

Judith was subjected to an uncomfortable, invasive treatment using a device called an IFAS machine, which the medical profession condemns as dangerous and unproven.

Gill claims it kills cancer cells, by releasing high frequency waves and ozone into the body through various attachments. The machines aren't licensed to treat any illnesses, but Reg Gill sold them to vulnerable patients for up to two and a half thousand pounds a time.

Judith explained, "He was the practitioner, I was the patient with basically nowhere to turn because I've now been told I've got cancer. I knew he was being inappropriate but I was trying to dismiss that at the time just to get a cure."

Reg Gill persuaded her to stay the night at his bungalow and to return for another appointment. Alarmed by his behaviour, she reported him to the authorities. "He was referring to his own sexual experiences with women that threw themselves at him because he'd saved their lives. I personally believe he's a sexual predator and he disguises that, creates a smokescreen, tells people they've got cancer when they haven't got cancer, so that can completely shake people's worlds and create this dependency."
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In April, a month after X-Ray's report, another woman, who can't be named went to the Gills home in Cwmduad. She too became a victim not just of fraud, but of sexual assault.

She described her ordeal. "Reg was looking at me. He started moving the palm of his hand over my midriff area and he said 'you have big problems'. He said you're going to have to take your clothes off for me to have a proper look. He started to press my lower abdomen then he moved his hand up from my tummy and started to feel my breasts. He said 'well my dear I'm sorry to say but you have cancer'. It was a massive shock. In the same breath he said don't worry I can fix that. This machine doesn't just diagnose cancer it treats cancer. It was like the same person had told me I'm going to die then told me I could live."

Reg Gill used the IFAS machine on the woman in an intimate way and his wife Leila assisted him. The woman went to see her GP who, shocked at her story, was able to confirm she didn't have cancer. She searched the internet and after seeing X-Ray's report on the Gills, she went to the police.

Dyfed Powys Police investigated the claims made by both women and trawled through X-Ray's damning undercover footage. In May, officers swooped on the Gill's home to arrest them both. Detective Constable Nicola Williams lead the investigation and told X-Ray, "This isn't a case you come across every day. Its very unusual to tell someone they've got a disease in order to sexually abuse them. The X-Ray programme helped us because it put into pictures what was going on in the Gills household."

"Both complainants had come to us and given us their versions of events but this corroborated everything they were saying. Mr and Mrs Gill are a danger to the public, because they are telling people not to have conventional treatment and are also sexually abusing them."

The jury at Swansea crown court was unanimous in their verdict. Reg Gill was found guilty of three sexual assaults, six assaults by penetration and two counts of fraud. Leila Gill was convicted of one sexual assault and one count of fraud. The couple will be sentenced in the next few weeks.Ìý