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Saturday 8 December 2007

Delamere case in Kenyan court VII (source:channel4 news)

Charges
The prosecution says Cholmondley deliberately shot at the poachers as they ran off. He maintains he fired at the dogs and that he then heard screams. Both sides accept Cholmondley tourniqueted the man's leg before calling the police.

Robert Njoya suffered a single gunshot wound to the buttock. He later bled to death in hospital.

Earlier in the trial the court travelled up to Soysambu to visit the crime scene. There's nothing wrong at all with the judge seeing where the witness stood.

Cholmondley listens to his friend Flash Tundo give his version of events. He's already told the prosecution how he saw Tom kneel, take aim and fire. He disappeared directly after the shooting. When cross-examined by the defence he denied he was armed that day.

But the defence will argue that the police failed to cordon off the crime scene and could not establish which gun bullet fragments found in the victims body had come from.

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