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 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A descendant of Kenya's most famous white settlers shot and killed a black poacher just weeks after a series of violent armed robberies on his vast estate, a court heard Thursday in a murder trial that is stirring racial tensions.
One ranch manager was shot during a holdup while two others were robbed at gunpoint in the weeks leading up to the shooting of the trespasser by white aristocrat Thomas Cholmondeley, according to testimony.
The case marks the second time in just over a year that Cholmondeley killed a black man on the family's sprawling farm. Charges were dropped in the earlier case — in which the victim was an undercover game warden — prompting protests that Cholmondeley got special treatment.
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