Who is Tom Cholmondley
His full names are Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley.He was born in 19 June 1968 Nairobi, Kenya.
He was the great-grandson of theLord Delamere, one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya, and was heir to theDelameretitle at the time of his death.
Tom Cholmondley Scandals and Prison charges:
In April 2005, he shot and killed aKenya Wildlife Servicegame ranger on his ranch.He claimedself-defence, and the murder case was dropped before going to trial.[4]In May 2006, he shot and killed a poacher on his Soysambu estate nearLake Naivasha. He was acquitted of murder, but found guilty ofmanslaughter[5]and sentenced to serve eight months in prison. He was released on 23 October 2009.[6]
Tom Cholmondley Early life:
Cholmondeley was a great-grandson ofThe 3rd Baron Delamere(1870–1931), a pioneering settler in Kenya who was the effective "founder" of theWhite communityin that country. Cholmondeley was the only son and heir ofThe 5th Baron Delamere(b. 1934) and his wife Anne,néeRenison. His family is one of the large-scalelandownersin Kenya.[2]He is also a descendant ofSir Robert Walpole, the firstPrime Minister of Great Britain.[7]Afterprep schoolat Pembroke House, in the town ofGilgil, Kenya, andAshdown House School, in the village ofForest RowinEast Sussex, he was educated atEtonCollege. After school he worked on various farms for his "pupil year", including time working onKenneth Matiba's farm, Wangu Embori.
The career life of Tom Cholmoldeley
He attended theRoyal Agricultural College,Cirencester, 1987–1990, and then worked for theAgricultural Mortgage Corporationin Andover,Great Britain. Back in Kenya from 1991 he started working for his family farming business and was then involved in many developing projects.He established a game cropping enterprise onSoysambu Ranch, the vast family estate in Kenya, which ran from 1992–2003, and which employed 15 people as well as building a modernabattoirandcold storagefacilities.He is also responsible for the design and layout of the Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary and the building of Delamere's Camp in 1993, a high-class tourist lodge with a 6,000-acre (24 km2) exclusive sanctuary covering the area aroundLake Elmenteita.In 1994 he was made a Director of Delamere Estates and in 1995 the chairman of Nakuru Wildlife Conservancy, a position he was elected to twice again.In 1996 he introduced the firstcentre pivot irrigationintoNaivashaand eventually the scheme covered over 600 acres (2.4 km2) and provided employment for approximately 500 people.In the same year he organised the reconstruction of the "Delamere Milk Shop" into a petrol station on the outskirts of Naivasha, the A104 highway. This is now a massive concern and Kenya's busiestfarm shop. Of note is the constructed wetland to cope with the sewage resulting from over 3000 customers per day.His energies turned to building the first straw bale building inGilgil, the location being on the edge of theOtutu forest. He created the leases and design criteria for two further tourist lodges, Mbweha Camp on the edge ofLake Nakuru National Park, andMawe Mbililodge. This is part of the greater plan for theSoysambu Conservancy, together with the establishment of two forestry partnerships covering 510 acres (2.1 km2).
Tom Cholmondeley Shooting saga
On 19 April 2005, Cholmondeley shotKenya Wildlife Servicegame ranger Samson ole Sisina on his ranch inGilgildivision,Nakuru District. He arrived at the slaughterhouse after his ranch employees had summoned his help during what seemed to be a robbery. He is alleged to have shot the KWS employee who was dressed in plain clothes, but insisted it was inself-defenseas the ranger had shot at him first without warning. However, a witness account says the victim was shot in the back. The Attorney GeneralAmos Wakodiscontinued the case by issuing anolle prosequi. This decision was widely criticised by Kenyan media and public, with many claiming he walked free due to the influence of class and position.[citation needed]On 10 May 2006, he was taken again into custody for the killing of astonemason, Robert Njoya Mbugua, who he had discovered on his land with three companions and a pack of dogs. Cholmondeley told police he had shot at the dogs, killing two of them, and that he had not intended to shoot Mr Njoya. He was held at theKamiti Maximum Security Prisonafter the incident and during the ongoing court proceedings. The trial began 25 September 2006.[8]An interlocutory appeal on a question of procedural law was decided on 13 June 2008. He won an appeal to uphold his right to a fair trial.[9]In March 2009, lay assessors in his trial found himnot guilty.[10]On 7 May 2009, Judge Muga Apondi, sitting as a single judge and not bound by the lay assessors' verdict, acquitted Cholmondeley of murder but found him guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter.[3]The verdict was largely based on the evidence by rally driverCarl Tundo, who had accompanied his friend Cholmondeley to the scene. On 14 May 2009 Cholmondeley was sentenced to serve a further eight months in prison. Apondi said he was imposing a "light" sentence given that he had been imprisoned for three years already, and had tried to help Njoya with first aid and transport to hospital.[11]In October 2009 Cholmondeley was released early for good behaviourafter serving five months of his eight-month prison sentence.[6]While murder carries a mandatory death sentence, manslaughter has a statutory maximum of life imprisonment but with no mandatory minimum sentence under Kenyan law.[12]BBC Four'sStoryvilleseries featured the Cholmondeley trial in an episode titled"Last White Man Standing".[13]
Tom Cholmodeley Death
Tom Cholmondeley, son of the fifth Lord Delamere, died on Wednesday 17th August 2016 while receiving treatment at MP Shah Hospital.MP Shah Hospital chief executive officer Anup Das said Mr Cholmondeley, 48, died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon at 2.15pm as he recovered from hip replacement surgery at the facility.Mr Das said: “He was admitted on Tuesday as a private patient — that is admitted by visiting doctors — in our facility and he underwent the surgery. He was recovering at the Intensive Care Unit when he developedcardiac arrest and died.”Mr Cholmondeley was the great-grandson of the third Lord Delamere, one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya.
