{"id":247602,"date":"2026-10-20T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-convicts-all-29-shakahola-accused-of-murder-sets-sentencing-for-november-6\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:30:18","slug":"kenya-court-convicts-all-29-shakahola-accused-of-murder-sets-sentencing-for-november-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-court-convicts-all-29-shakahola-accused-of-murder-sets-sentencing-for-november-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court Convicts All 29 Shakahola Accused of Murder, Sets Sentencing for November 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has convicted all 29 accused persons in the Shakahola starvation cult case linked to self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie, finding them guilty of the murder of 191 people, including 190 children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The judge, Diana Kavedza, said the sentence would be delivered in open court on Friday, November 6, with the convicts to be physically produced in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In its judgment delivered on Monday, October 19, the court rejected the defence argument that the victims, all but one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610190618.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The High Court has convicted all 29 accused persons in the Shakahola starvation cult case linked to self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie, finding them guilty of the murder of 191 people, including 190 children. The judge, Diana Kavedza, said the sentence would be delivered in open court on Friday, November 6, with the convicts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":247603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690640:dc32c3c581d68547b9ef135dd0bfd74d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[7083,258,256,7646,6185,4688,430,304,257,16554,19728,7123,45295,254],"class_list":["post-247602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicts","tag-court","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-november","tag-sentencing","tag-sets","tag-shakahola","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690640:dc32c3c581d68547b9ef135dd0bfd74d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}