{"id":249264,"date":"2026-11-06T17:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-paul-mackenzie-sentenced-to-200-years-in-prison-over-shakahola-deaths\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:30:42","slug":"kenya-paul-mackenzie-sentenced-to-200-years-in-prison-over-shakahola-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-paul-mackenzie-sentenced-to-200-years-in-prison-over-shakahola-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Paul Mackenzie Sentenced to 200 Years in Prison Over Shakahola Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mombasa \u2014 Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to a total of 200 years in prison after Justice Diana Kavedza handed down a 100-year term for the murder of children and another 100 years for the murder of adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The sentence follows Mackenzie&#8217;s prosecution over the deaths linked to the Shakahola massacre, where followers of the Good News International Church were allegedly encouraged to starve themselves to death in a religious fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The court imposed separate 100-year&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060352.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>Mombasa \u2014 Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie has been sentenced to a total of 200 years in prison after Justice Diana Kavedza handed down a 100-year term for the murder of children and another 100 years for the murder of adults. The sentence follows Mackenzie&#8217;s prosecution over the deaths linked to the Shakahola massacre, where followers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":249265,"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\/00651117:08622a4850634c2a9f9b1d10a57ea319:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8601,4688,430,34276,257,10695,5115,6787,45295,254,5114],"class_list":["post-249264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mackenzie","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-prison","tag-sentenced","tag-shakahola","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651117:08622a4850634c2a9f9b1d10a57ea319:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249264","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=249264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}