Kenyan cult leader jailed 200 years for killing 191 people
- ✦Mackenzie was convicted in October alongside 28 co-defendants over the killings linked to his religious group in Shakahola forest, near Kenya’s coast.
- Mackenzie’s 28 co-defendants, including guards who enforced the fasting orders and gravediggers who helped conceal victims’ bodies, received prison terms of up to 160 years.
- Photo: AFP via Getty Images 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.
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.
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Mackenzie’s 28 co-defendants, including guards who enforced the fasting orders and gravediggers who helped conceal victims’ bodies, received prison terms of up to 160 years.
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Photo: AFP via Getty Images 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.
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Delivering the sentence on Friday, Justice Diana Mochache said Mackenzie bore the “primary criminal culpability” for directing followers to undertake deadly fasts.
