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KENYA - A Kenyan court sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie on Friday to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children starved to death on his orders and buried in a forest, among 500 suspected victims of one of the deadliest cult-related mass killings of modern times.
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Upgrade this serverNairobi (WDN)- In one of the most horrifying cases of religious extremism in modern African history, a Kenyan court has sentenced self-proclaimed preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for orchestrating the deaths of 191 people, including 190 children, who were starved to death under the guise of religious salvation. The ruling, delivered on... The post Kenyan Doomsday Cult Leader Sentenced to 200 Years for Murder of 190 Children in Shakahola Massacre appeared first on WardheerNews .
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A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen others at the Mombasa High Court. … The post Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 200 years in prison over the deaths of 190 children appeared first on Egypt Independent .
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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. Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty. The judge declined, saying it would…
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ALBAWABA - Paul Mackenzie, leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya, has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people with all but one of them being children. Mackenzie was arrested and charged alongside 28 others complicit in running the cult that instructed its followers to starve their children to death in order to “meet Jesus.” Kenyan Justice Diana Mochache said that the "primary criminal culpability" falls on Mackenzie for ordering followers to fast until they died – marking one of the deadliest instances of cult activity. "The sentence is appropriate and just, to send an…
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Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the deaths of 190 children who were starved to death on his orders in Shakahola Forest. Prosecutors said he had convinced followers to fast to reach heaven before the apocalypse, with some victims beaten, buried alive or dumped in latrines. Twenty-eight accomplices have also been jailed. The case has raised serious questions about the authorities' failure to act on repeated warning signs dating back to 2017, with the death toll from the wider investigation reaching 448 confirmed bodies and around 500 suspected…
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A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for the starvation deaths and murders of 190 children who were killed on his orders and buried...
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KENYA - A Kenyan court sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie on Friday to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children starved to death on his orders and buried in a forest, among 500 suspected victims of one of the deadliest cult-related mass killings of modern times.
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MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — He was convicted of murdering 190 children and one adult after he ordered his followers to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus.
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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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