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Tom Gilbert Cholmondeley, a British aristocrat jailed for the killing of stone mason Robert Njoya has been released from prison. Cholmondeley was sentenced to eight months jail by High Court judge Mr Justice Muga Apondi on May 14 after he was found guilty...
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The prosecution in Kenya on Tuesday appealed against the "lenient" eight months jail sentence imposed recently on a white Kenyan rancher for manslaughter over the death of a black poacher. Chief public prosecutor Keriako Tobiko said the sentence slapped...
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Thomas Cholmondeley, 40, was arrested in June 2006 and charged with murder after Robert Njoya, an unemployed stonemason who was poaching on the 50,000-acre Soysambu ranch in Kenya's Rift Valley, died from a gunshot wound to his pelvic area. The prosecution...
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One of Kenya's most famous white aristocrats will be sentenced Thursday, after a judge found him guilty of manslaughter for fatally shooting a poaching suspect on his family estate. The case highlights the fractious relationship the country has with...
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The Kenyan High Court on Thursday May 7, 2009 morning found the wealthy former Lord Delamere Kin Tom Cholmondeley guilty of Manslaughter. Mr Cholmondoley was arrested on May 10, 2006 after he shot Mr Robert Njoya a local resident in Naivasha after the...
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The heir to Kenya's most famous white settler family was acquitted on Thursday of murdering a local poacher but found guilty of manslaughter in a case highlighting the East African nation's delicate colonial legacy. The High Court said Tom Cholmondeley...
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Thomas Cholmondeley, the aristocratic scion of one of Kenya's wealthiest white families, took a huge step towards walking free from a murder charge today after a ruling at a Kenyan court. A panel of civilian lay assessors, the Kenyan equivalent of a jury,...
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