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Cult Leader Gets 200 Years For Starvation Deaths Of 191 People, Nearly All Of Them Children A Kenyan judge sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison on Friday over the Shakahola massacre , in which 191 people, 190 of them children, were starved to death. Justice Diana Kavedza of the High Court in Mombasa imposed 100 years for the murders by starvation and a further 100 years for eight counts of murder by direct homicide involving child victims, The Star reported. Sentences within each set run concurrently, but the two sets run one after the other, which brings the total to 200 years. Doomsday cult preacher, Paul Mackenzie, sentenced to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people in Shakahola. pic.twitter.com/sh1dZ4Rrab — Kahawa Tungu (@KahawaTungu) November 6, 2026 Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty. The judge declined, saying it would "foreclose the possibility of disengagement and rehabilitation." According to Kenyans.co.ke , she also noted that a convict who stays alive might disclose where the missing children's remains are. The court found Mackenzie, who led Good News International Ministries, bore primary responsibility as the overall leader of the Shakahola settlement. She said he ordered followers to fast to death, targeted children first and commanded violence against those who resisted or tried to escape. Witnesses testified that he told followers they would enter heaven through "punches and kicks." A mass grave site in Shakahola forest, in south-east Kenya, where the pastor Paul Mackenzie and his followers lived. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images The 28 co-accused were convicted with him on Oct. 19. They received sentences of 10 to 160 years, with most getting aggregate terms of 160 years, Kenyans.co.ke reported. The judge ordered all of them except Mackenzie assessed for a government deradicalization and reintegration program, and convicts who have served a third or half of their terms may apply for review…

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