Kenyan starvation cult leader found guilty of murder of 191 children, 1 adult
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More than 400 bodies have been recovered from mass graves discovered at the Shakahola Forest more than three years ago
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Reuters Published: 11:51pm, 19 Oct 2026 Updated: 11:54pm, 19 Oct 2026
A Kenyan court on Monday found starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.
Mackenzie and his co-accused will be given their sentence on November 6.
Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after police received a tip-off, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola Forest near the coast in southeastern Kenya.
Prosecutors say Mackenzie and his Good News International Church organised a Christian doomsday sect in which they ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death to go to heaven before the world ended.
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