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Kenyan court jails preacher Paul Mackenzie for 200 years over Shakahola starvation deaths

The High Court in Mombasa on Friday 6 November sentenced Paul Mackenzie to an aggregate 200 years in prison over the deaths of 191 people, 190 of them children, rejecting a prosecution request for the death penalty.

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A wide, shallow river with sandbanks seen from a red sandy bank, with palm trees on the far side under a blue sky
Part of the Galana River at Shakahola, Kilifi County, Kenya, photographed in August 2026. The picture does not show the events described in the story. Dasegrama16 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

In this story
  1. How the sentence is made up
  2. Why the court did not impose death
  3. The case so far
  4. How this story was sourced

A court in Kenya on Friday 6 November sentenced Paul Mackenzie, the preacher at the centre of the Shakahola forest deaths, to an aggregate 200 years in prison, according to Kenyan news organisations The Star and Kenyans.co.ke.

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