London 'autism healer' caught screaming abuse at patient and threatening to slap him

Jozsef Kanta: The healer was captured during secret filming
Ross Lydall @RossLydall27 September 2016

A man claiming to be able to treat autism has been recorded on camera screaming and threatening violence against an undercover reporter who he believed was a vulnerable patient.

A BBC London investigation secretly recorded the supposed healer treating the journalist, who pretended to be a young man with the condition.

The footage, to be screened tonight, shows a London-based therapist for a Hungarian firm asking the “patient” to choose between being slapped or punched. Jozsef Kanta, who is linked to company Stabil Pont Technologia, says: “I’ll go and slap you, always slap you, everybody. You want I slap you?

"Or you want I punch you? Which one do you want? Slap or punch, choose?”

Richard Mills, director of the charity Research Autism, said such an encounter would send the stress levels of an autistic person “through the roof”.

He said: “To be confronted with someone who is so threatening is horrifying, it’s terrifying. To someone who is prone particularly to stress and anxiety, the effects are likely to be catastrophic.”

There is no “cure” for autism, a condition which affects social interaction and communication, but speech and language therapy are among the treatments recommended by the NHS.

The exact cause of autism is unknown, although cases have been known to run in families. Most researchers believe that certain inherited genes could make a child more vulnerable to developing autism.

Tonight’s Inside Out documentary shows an email from Zoltan Toth, of Stabil Pont, claiming he can “kill” autism. He directs the reporter to Mr Kanta in East Ham.

Mr Kanta says it will cost £3,500 for 10 days of treatment to find a patient’s “trauma”. Asked what happened when he found the “trauma”, he replies: “It’s f***ing pain. And after, the people look like normal.”

When contacted later, Mr Kanta said the abuse recorded on camera was a “joke” and insisted the company had had “plenty of results”. He said: “It is not a treatment or a cure. It is training.”

Stabil Pont said it helped “autistic people become fully independent”.

Inside Out airs on BBC London at 7.30pm tonight

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