Brych denied release on bail

Press, 10 November 1983, Page 10

Brych denied release on bail

NZPA Washington The cancer therapist, Milan Brych, has been denied release on bail while he awaits the outcome of an

appeal against his conviction for grand theft and practising medicine in California without a licence. Justices Arleigh Woods, Eugene McClosky, and Richard Amerian of the

Second District State Court of Appeal in Los Angeles ruled that Superior Court Judge David Aisenson, who convicted Brych, aged 43, of defrauding patients and sentenced him to six years in jail, acted properly when he refused to allow him his freedom pending the hearing of the appeal, which could take up to three years to come to court. Judge Aisenson, in denying bail, said he feared Brych might flee the country- . ■

Brych is being held in the Duell Vocational Institute in Tracy,' California. He was convicted in June after a seven-month trial.'

Brych, who practised in New Zealand and the Cook Islands before moving on to the United States, told his patients in Los Angeles that he had a secret serum to cure their cancer.

The serum proved, however, to be massive doses of drugs used in traditional cancer treatment. Brych called himself a research associate of Dr Richard O’Connor. Dr O’Connor, himself suffering from cancer, undertook Brych’s treatment and called him a genius. He was arrested with Brych on September 22, 1980, but died of cancer before being formally charged with any crime.