Kenya cult leader Paul Mackenzie sentenced to 200 years

Deutsche Welle · Mark Hallam · 2026-11-06 12:03 UTC

A court in Kenya has sentenced Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and an adult. He told them to starve themselves to death as part of his apocalyptic religious cult.

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Kenyan religious sect leader Paul Mackenzie was sentenced to 200 years in prison on Friday, at the culmination of a trial following the discovery of hundreds of corpses in the woods.

A self-proclaimed pastor and longstanding leader of a new age Christian apocalyptic cult called the Good News International Church, Mackenzie was convicted in October of 191 counts of murder in the deaths of one adult and 190 children.

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