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Kenyan cult leader convicted of 191 starvation murders

A Kenyan court has convicted self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie of 191 murders—190 children and one adult—for leading a starvation cult. Mackenzie, who ran the Good News International Church, was accused of ordering followers to starve themselves and their children to death. His wife Rhoda Maweu and about 29 co-accused were also found guilty. Mackenzie had denied ordering the victims to starve in order to "meet Jesus."

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Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges - all but one of them children.

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Kenya cult leader who told parents to starve children guilty of 191 murders

Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges - all but one of them children.

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Kenyan starvation cult leader guilty of murder of 190 children and one adult

Paul Mackenzie and his church set up sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children, say prosecutors A Kenyan court has found the 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 was arrested in 2023 after police received a tipoff, and weeks lat…

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Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie found guilty over 191 starvation deaths

Preacher Paul Mackenzie is accused of telling his followers to starve themselves to death. He ran a Christian doomsday cult called the Good News International Church that claimed the end of the world was imminent.

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Kenya: Cult leader guilty of murdering 190 children, 1 adult

Preacher Paul Mackenzie was accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death. He ran a Christian doomsday cult called the Good News International Church that claimed the end of the world was imminent.

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Kenyan court convicts starvation cult leader for murder of 191 people

Doomsdays cult leader Paul ⁠Mackenzie had denied ordering the victims to starve so they could 'meet Jesus'.

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Doomsday cult leader found guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult

Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie, his wife Rhoda Maweu, and 29 other co-accused have been found guilty of the murder of 190 children and one adult.

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