Why did a Kenyan court jail a cult leader for 200 years?

A court in Mombasa has sentenced Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed pastor and former taxi driver, to 200 years in prison. He had denied that he forced anyone to fast, but the judge rejected that defence.

The conviction covers 191 deaths, most of them children. 183 people starved, and eight were killed. The judge said the fasting was enforced through violence, confinement and withheld food.

The bodies lay in a forest near Malindi, while the trial sat in Mombasa, on the coast.

Searches have turned up more than 400 bodies in that forest, and calls for tougher rules on religious groups have grown since.