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Thomas Cholmondeley, a 40-year-old British aristocrat in Kenya, has been acquitted of murder but found guilty of manslaughter for the death of Robert Njoya, a Kikuyu tribesman who was shot on Cholmondeleys ranch in 2006. Outside originally reported this story in December 2006, with details of what allegedly happened the afternoon of the shooting. A Lange & Sohne 109.025 Men's Watch Cholmondeley had set out from his home and was walking with a friend when they were met by five black men with bows and arrows and a skinned impala among them. Cholmondeley claimed that the poachers set their dogs on him, so he shot in self-defense.
The men who were with Njoya claimed that Cholmondeley fired without warning. One of the shots hit Njoya in the groin, and he bled to death on the way to the hospital. The incident stirred up racial tension, angering blacks that were resentful of white settlers who had held onto their land after Kenyan independence was established in 1963. A Lange & Sohne 101.025 Men's Watch Cholmondeley himself had inherited his 50,000-acre ranch from his colonial ancestors. On the outskirts of the property are slum areas. The 2006 event was not the first of its kind for the aristocrat. In 2005, he shot Samson ole Sisina, a Kenya Wildlife Service ranger who died instantly from a bullet in the neck.
