 Cayenne court leader Paul McKenzie lived with hundreds of followers in makeshift homes of polythene shitting and fathched in a remote forest camp that he divided into areas with Biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea, relatives of his adherents say. He told them the world as they knew it was going to end on April 15 and Satan would rule for 1000 years according to the relatives and a senior police investigator. He ordered them to starve themselves and their children to death so they could meet Jesus in heaven ahead of that date they said. McKenzie 50 is police custody and has yet to be required to enter a plea to any charge related to the mass graves which has still been assumed. Two lawyers acting for him declined to comment. This is the moment Kenyan court leader Paul McKenzie was being escorted out of police station. The 50 year old former taxi driver has been accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death. Sources say he told his adherents the world was going to end on April 15 and Satan would rule for 1000 years. His court became the focus of national horror with the recent discovery of more than 100 bodies mostly children in mass graves in the Shakahola forest of southeast Kenya. From called records and interviews with relatives of the victims, medical workers and a police investigator, Reuters has pieced together a comprehensive picture of McKenzie and his cult. McKenzie grew up in Ruaquale County in southern eastern Kenya. In the early 1990s he moved to the coastal town of Malindi where he worked as a taxi driver. Fellow driver Jafeth Charo said McKenzie became increasingly focused on religion and started his own church in 2003. Charo said he and his family joined the church for two years until McKenzie's sermons became alarming. We had been there for about two years. Soon he started verbally attacking other religions like Muslims and Catholics. In March 2017 police searched McKenzie's compound in Malindi and found 43 children live in there without attending school. That's according to court documents at the time. McKenzie's brother says the court leader believed education was evil. As an individual he said he wouldn't take his own children to school because of various reasons. He said worldly education does not help anyone but when you give a child godly education they are safe not just on earth but in heaven as well and he said that he will give his children religious education. In 2019 the authorities ordered his church to shut down. That's when McKenzie relocated to the Shakohala Forest home to his Good News International church. There he lived with hundreds of his followers in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch. Stephen Neity says his wife joined the cult two years ago. My wife told me she'd found a church that would take her to heaven. She said it was wrong to go to school in hospital. I challenged her and told her that she had gone to school. I asked her how she would have read the Bible.