Overview
- Kristian Trend, a 40-year-old wellbeing coach and cancer survivor, collapsed during a cleansing ceremony and later died in hospital after the event on April 11.
- Leicestershire Police arrested a 41-year-old on suspicion of administering poison and released him on bail while the force continues its inquiry.
- A coroner has been notified and toxicology tests are under way to determine the cause of death, and no official link to Kambo has yet been confirmed.
- Kambo is a secretion from Amazonian tree frogs used in traditional purging rituals that can cause severe reactions such as rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, seizures and, in rare cases, death.
- The death has prompted calls from the family for Kambo to be banned and drawn government attention because the substance is not licensed in the UK and its practitioners are unregulated.