Kenyan cult leader jailed 200 years for killing 191 people
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A Kenyan court has sentenced a doomsday cult leader, Paul Mackenzie, to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people, including 190 children, after ordering his followers to starve to death in the belief that they would meet Jesus, BBC reports.
A Kenyan court has sentenced a doomsday cult leader, Paul Mackenzie, to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people, including 190 children, after ordering his followers to starve to death in the belief that they would meet Jesus, BBC reports.
Mackenzie was convicted in October alongside 28 co-defendants over the killings linked to his religious group in Shakahola forest, near Kenya’s coast.
Delivering the sentence on Friday, Justice Diana Mochache said Mackenzie bore the “primary criminal culpability” for directing followers to undertake deadly fasts.
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