NewzPaul Mackenzie is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to "meet Jesus." Paul Mackenzie and his church set up sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children, say prosecutorsA 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 was arrested in 2023 after police received a tipoff, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakahola forest near the coast in south-eastern Kenya. 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 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... 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. Preacher Paul Mackenzie is accused of telling his followers to starve themselves to death. 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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