Kenyan cult leader appears in court over mass deaths

A different court is scheduled to hear allegations against televangelist and additional pastor Ezekiel Odero, including murder and assisted suicide.

Kenyan cult leader appears in court over mass deaths

Following the discovery of more than 100 of his devotees in mass graves last month, the leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya has made an appearance in court.

Former taxi driver Paul Mackenzie Nthenge is accused of advising his followers to starve to death so they may enter heaven before the end of the world.

The first autopsy of the victims, nine children and a mother, showed hunger and, in two cases, asphyxiation, according to Kenya's top pathologist on Monday.