Paul Mackenzie is due to be sentenced on Nov. 6 after a Kenyan court found him and 28 co-accused guilty of murdering 190 children and one adult. [S2][S4][S5]
Verification result: verified, because all five distinct reporting families directly support the conviction and the supplied record contains no validated contradiction to any material claim. [S1][S2][S3][S4][S5]
The strongest evidence is the judge's reported statement that the prosecution proved the case against all 29 accused for murdering 190 children and one adult. [S4]
The co-defendant count varies only in precision: Al Jazeera and BBC report 28 other leaders, Reuters says about 30 others, and AFP's account quotes the judge referring to all 29 accused. [S1][S2][S3][S4]
The reports agree that Mackenzie directed or ordered followers to starve themselves or their children to death in pursuit of heaven or meeting Jesus. [S1][S2][S3][S4][S5]
The judgment covered 191 deaths within a broader disaster in which more than 400 bodies were recovered or exhumed from the Shakahola area. [S2][S3][S4][S5]
The supplied sources report a mitigation hearing scheduled for Oct. 30 and sentencing for Nov. 6, but they do not establish what sentence was ultimately imposed. [S2][S5]
