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. The verdict of April 2009 was largely based on the evidence by rally driver Carl 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. Cholmondeley was released early for good behaviour in October 2009 after serving five months of his eight-month prison sentence. In an interview he expressed his opinions: While murder carries a mandatory death sentence, manslaughter has a statutory maximum of life imprisonment but with no mandatory minimum sentence under Kenyan law. BBC Four's Storyville series featured the Cholmondeley trial in an episode titled "Last White Man Standing". Personal life In 1997, Cholmondeley was gored by a buffalo while walking to a launching site for paragliding in the Maasai Mara. He married Sally A. Brewerton on 16 May 1998. They divorced in 2010. He had been a keen motor sportsman and was Kenya Novice Motocross champion in 1986 and runner-up in the Kenya Enduro championship in 2000. In addition he held a private pilot's licence (PPL) since 2000 and flew in Kenya, Britain, France, Germany, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique. Cholmondeley died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday 17 August 2016 while undergoing hip surgery at MP Shah Hospital Nairobi. He is survived by his sons, Hugh (b. 1998; now heir apparent to the Delamere barony) and Henry (b. 2000). See also White people in Kenya Notes References Debrett, John; Charles Kidd; David Williamson. (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. New York: Macmillan. Hayden, Joseph. (1851). The book of dignities: containing rolls of the official personages of the British Empire. London: Longmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Wright, Rupert "The Kennedys of Kenya," The Spectator (London). 11 April 1998. Seal, Mark "Mark Seal on Tom Cholmondeley" Vanity Fair 1968 births 2016 deaths People educated at Eton College Eldest sons of British hereditary barons Heirs apparent who never acceded Kenyan businesspeople Kenyan farmers Kenyan people convicted of manslaughter Kenyan prisoners and detainees People educated at Ashdown House Prisoners and detainees of Kenya Kenyan people of English descent Thomas White