Tom Cholmondeley dies at the MP Shah Hospital while receiving treatment

KENYA: The son of the fifth Lord Delamere, Tom Cholmondeley, died on Wednesday 17 at the age of 48, while receiving treatment at MP Shah Hospital.

Tom Cholmondeley.

According to Kenya's Daily Nation, MP Shah Hospital chief executive officer Anup Das said Mr Cholmondeley, died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon at 2.15pm as he recovered from hip replacement surgery at the facility.

“Tom Cholmondeley was admitted on 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 cardiac arrest and died.” added Mr Das.

Back in April 2005, Mr Cholmondeley shot and killed a Kenya Wildlife Service game ranger at his expansive Soysambu ranch, near Lake Naivasha.

The British aristocrat was jailed in May 2009 for killing stonemason Robert Njoya.

However, he shot and killed a poacher in the same year and was found guilty.

Tom Cholmondeley was sent to Kamiti Maximum Security Prison and was released in October that year after serving an eight months for manslaughter.


SOURCE: Daily Edition, The African Post,