In courts today: Hearing continues for Shakahola deaths case against Mackenzie and others

Wheels of Justice: Court stories lined up for today.

In Summary
  • They are facing 13 acts of terrorism charges for their involvement in the deaths of 429 people, whose bodies were exhumed from Shakahola forest last year.
  • In May, Shanzu principal magistrate Leah Juma directed that witness testimonies be heard for four days from July 8 to 11, and another four-day marathon hearing from July 22 to 25, 2024.
In courts today
In courts today
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A Shanzu court will proceed with the hearing for the Shakahola deaths case involving Paul Mackenzie and 94 others.

They are facing 13 acts of terrorism charges for their involvement in the deaths of 429 people, whose bodies were exhumed from Shakahola forest last year.

In May, Shanzu principal magistrate Leah Juma directed that witness testimonies be heard for four days from July 8 to 11, and another four-day marathon hearing from July 22 to 25, 2024.

The hearing which started on Monday will continue until Thursday. 

The witnesses are testifying under protection. 

According to a witness under protection, on Tuesday, Mackenzie used technology and social media to lure victims into the secluded forest before indoctrinating them with religious extremism and radicalization ideologies.

Mackenzie also promised his victims plenty of farmland within the Shakahola forest on which they would farm and build homes.

In another case, the hearing of a case in which Agnes Wanjiru 21, was killed in Lions Court Hotel on the outskirts of Nanyuki in 2012 will proceed today.

Her body was discovered in the septic tank of a hotel two months after she disappeared.

She had entered the hotel with British soldiers of the Duke of Lancaster's Regimen

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