An Australian court has jailed controversial Kenyan preacher Quincy Zumba Wambitta Timberlake for 11 years.
Timberlake, 43, was found guilty of manslaughter in an incident in which he was accused of punching his son in the stomach and then throwing him against a wall before declaring “the devil is gone now”.
Moments later, the son, identified as Sinclair, whose mother is former acclaimed television journalist Esther Arunga, died on his bedroom floor north of Brisbane in Australia. He died on June 18, 2014, at the age of three.
On Friday, an Australian court was told that when he found his son dead, Timberlake started walking around the house because he said there was a devil there too.
During the hearing, the court was told that Timberlake then carried a Bible and began to pray in the house, saying he was on a mission to find the devil and be
Passing the sentence, Justice Paul Freeburn described the death as “brutal and incomprehensible”.
The court dropped the murder charge against Timberlake on September 13, 2023, at the request of the Australian Prosecution Service.Quincy Timberlake used witchcraft to win over Esther Arunga – Joseph Hellon
Timberlake and Ms Arunga moved to Australia from Kenya in 2012, leaving behind a trail of controversy over their private lives.
Timberlake has been behind bars for almost a decade in connection with the incident.
