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Kenyan preacher gets 200 years over child deaths

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 06 November 2026, 20:34 UTC ·10 sec listen

A Kenyan court sentenced preacher Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for the deaths of 190 children. Prosecutors said he urged followers to starve themselves, in one of the country’s deadliest cult cases ever recorded.

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