Exposed: Doctors the Inner-City Witch Doctors Peddling Bogus Cures ; 'We Know They Are Carrying Out Animal Sacrifices. It Isn't a Huge Step for Them to Begin Seeking Human Body Parts'

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SHEIKH Abubakar holds a wad of notes to his lips and whispers an incantation, oblivious to the complaints of his latest patient. "I can't afford Pounds 500," says the sick man. "I have leukaemia. Here's Pounds 400. I need another Pounds 100 for food."

The sheikh, a medicine man dressed in African robes, stops chanting and puts down the money. But he is unmoved by his patient's plight. "Some people pay Pounds 1,000," he says softly, "some people pay Pounds 700. You will pay Pounds 500."

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Exposed: Doctors the Inner-City Witch Doctors Peddling Bogus Cures ; 'We Know They Are Carrying Out Animal Sacrifices. It Isn't a Huge Step for Them to Begin Seeking Human Body Parts'

Seconds later, his Pounds 500 safely tucked away, the witch doctor fills a bottle with water, reaches into a compartment under his bed and pulls out an African rug on which is a cloth piled high with powder - medicine. He sprinkles three pinches into the bottle and shakes it vigorously before passing it to the leukaemia victim's right hand. It must not, he says, without explanation, be handled with the left.

"First, you rub the medicine here," says Abubakar, slapping his ribs. "The medicine will go straight into t...

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