Aristocrat who loved life but quick on the trigger

Tom Cholmondeley escorted by police to Nakuru law courts in 2005 over the murder of KWS Ranger Samson ole SIsina.

Even in death, controversy dogs the scion of aristocracy and symbol of what many have come to view as a closed club of privileged Kenyans of European descent who, for centuries, coexisted with peacefully with Kenyans.

No other European settler in modern day Kenya has evoked as much emotion from Kenyans of all walks of life. No one really knew Tom Cholmondeley before he infamously made global headlines for manslaughter.