Cult Leader Gets 200 Years For Starvation Deaths Of 191 People, Nearly All Of Them Children A Kenyan judge sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison on Friday over the Shakahola massacre , in which 191 people, 190 of them children, were starved to death.
Justice Diana Kavedza of the High Court in Mombasa imposed 100 years for the murders by starvation and a further 100 years for eight counts of murder by direct homicide involving child victims, The Star reported. Sentences within each set run concurrently, but the two sets run one after the other, which brings the total to 200 years.
Doomsday cult preacher, Paul Mackenzie, sentenced to 200 years in prison for murdering 191 people in Shakahola. pic.twitter.com/sh1dZ4Rrab — Kahawa Tungu (@KahawaTungu) November 6, 2026 Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty. The judge declined, saying it would "foreclose the possibility of disengagement and rehabilitation." According to Kenyans.co.