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Thomas Cholmondeley, the Kenyan aristocrat accused of shooting dead a poacher on his land, said today that he could not understand how he could have been responsible for the fatal shot. Thomas Cholmondeley testifies at the Nairobi Law Courts during his trial Mr Cholmondeley, the Eton-educated heir of Lord Delamere and a rancher in Kenya's Rift Valley, is accused of killing Robert Njoya in 2006 at his 20,000 hectare Soysambu ranch near the town of Naivasha. Dressed in a dark navy suit and red tie, Mr Cholmondeley, 40, answered the murder charges against him as his defence team opened its case in a two-year trial that has shined a spotlight on Kenya's white community. Mr Cholmondeley said: "Up to now, I cannot see how I could have shot that person." He was arrested along with his friend, Carl "Flash" Tundo, a rally driver who... [read full story]
