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Enlarge Accused: Thomas Cholmondeley stands inside the Nairobi Law Courts today The heir to Kenya's most famous white settler family told a murder trial on Tuesday he could not have shot a local stonemason who was poaching on his land, implying that a friend might have killed the man instead. Thomas Cholmondeley, the great-grandson of Lord Delamere, admits shooting dogs belonging to a group of poachers he confronted on his 55,000 acre Soysambu ranch in May 2006. But the 40-year-old denied shooting dead Robert Njoya. "Had I shot him, he should have fallen where I shot the dogs," Cholmondeley told a packed High Court in Nairobi in his first testimony since he was arrested more than two years ago. "I was shocked and surprised. I couldn't understand what had happened ... From my angle, I could not have shot that man." The trial... [read full story]
