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| Aristocrat guilty of manslaughter | Aristocrat guilty of manslaughter |
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| A white Kenyan aristocrat has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a poacher on his estate in 2006. | A white Kenyan aristocrat has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a poacher on his estate in 2006. |
| A judge in Nairobi ruled Thomas Cholmondeley did not murder Robert Njoya in May 2006, but had shot him. | A judge in Nairobi ruled Thomas Cholmondeley did not murder Robert Njoya in May 2006, but had shot him. |
| Mr Cholmondeley had denied murder, saying he had shot at poachers' dogs in a case attracting huge media attention. | |
| The 40-year-old was acquitted of murdering a Maasai ranger in 2005 - a ruling that stoked racial tension in the East African country. | |
| Much of Kenya's most fertile land was given to white settlers during the colonial era and this remains the case 46 years after independence - a fact resented by many Kenyans. | |
| 'No malice' | |
| High Court Justice Muga Apondi read out his 320-page verdict to a packed courtroom in the Kenyan capital. | |
| "I find as a fact that it was the accused who had shot the deceased resulting in his death," he said. | |
| "In view of the above analysis I hereby find which I do, that the accused did not have any malice aforethought to kill the deceased." | |
| He said he had therefore decided Mr Cholmondeley should be acquitted of the murder charge, but found guilty of manslaughter. | |
| He will be sentenced at a later date. |