Shakahola deaths: Kenya court doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie sentenced to 200 years in prison

BBC News · Basillioh Rukanga · 2026-11-06 08:59 UTC

Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve their children to death in a forest so they could "meet Jesus".

Kenyan doomsday cult leader given life sentence for murdering 191 people

A Kenyan court has sentenced the leader of a doomsday cult, Paul Mackenzie, to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people, all but one of them children.

Alongside 27 others, Mackenzie was found guilty of the murders for instructing members of his cult to starve their children to death so they could "meet Jesus".

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