Aidan Hartley Aidan Hartley

Kenya’s trials

Tom Cholmondeley has done it again

issue 27 May 2006

Nairobi

Tom Cholmondeley has done it again. The scion of Kenya’s Delameres has shot dead another black African trespasser on his Rift Valley farm. This is his second in a year. Kenya’s authorities, which gave up trying to pronounce his name and settled for ‘Tom Chom’, let him go first time. That won’t matter on this occasion as I reckon Tom may be sharing his cell for a long time with a very large fellow convict who will insist on calling him Tinkerbell. That’s if he stays alive.

I don’t know how or why Tom Chom has to shoot people. I have managed to get through life in Kenya without shooting a single person. I don’t believe Cholmondeley is a psychopath. We shall have to see what happens in the courts, if he can be accorded a fair trial in today’s Kenya.

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