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Kenya starvation cult leader sentenced to 200 years

7 November 2026
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2026-11-07 16:26

A self-proclaimed Kenyan preacher, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, is sentenced to 200 years in prison by a court in the coastal city of Mombasa for the murder of 190 children and one adult in an infamous starvation cult.

The judge in the Mombasa court said Paul Mackenzie was sentenced to "100 years imprisonment for each of the 183 counts of starvation and 100 years imprisonment for each of the eight counts of murders by direct homicide to run concurrently with one another". Twenty-eight accomplices were also sentenced to a variety of prison terms.

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