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Lord Delamere’s heir Tom Cholmondeley dies in city hospital


Lord Delamere’s heir Thomas (Tom) Cholmondeley passed on at the MP Shah Hospital on Wednesday afternoon of a heart failure.

The hospital’s chief executive Anup Das told Nairobi News that Mr Cholmondeley, 48, died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon at 2.15pm as he recovered from a hip replacement surgery at the facility.

Mr Das said: “He was admitted yesterday (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 developed a cardiac arrest and died.”

Mr Cholmondeley was the son of the 5th Lord Delamere, a scion of Kenya’s British settler aristocracy.

In April 2005, Mr Cholmondeleyhe shot dead Robert Njoya, a stonemason, at his Soysambu ranch. High Court Judge Muga Apondi handed him an eight months imprisonment for manslaughter.

The judge said the fact that Mr Cholmondeley has ” been held in custody for slightly over three years since he was arrested” and had no malice aforethought (intent to kill) prompted him to issue the light sentence.

He said that the prosecution had acknowledged that Mr Cholmondeley made desperate attempts to save the life of Mr Njoya, including calling Kenya Wildlife Service rangers and the police after the fatal shooting. He also offered his car to rush the victim to hospital.