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Kenya cult leader who told parents to starve children guilty of 191 murders

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Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was found guilty of 191 murder charges - all but one of them children.

What the coverage shows

All three outlets focus on the conviction of the cult leader and on the deaths being mostly children, with BBC News and Channel 4 News both giving the 191-victim total. BBC News is the only outlet to spell out the alleged starvation directive and the detail that education and modern medicine were forbidden, while Al Jazeera frames the case more generally as a conviction over 190 children. Channel 4 News alone adds that 28 others were also found guilty.

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