Police arrest British aristocrat accused in new Kenya slaying

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NAIVASHA, Kenya (AFP) — Kenyan police have arrested a British aristocrat who shot a man dead on his family's ranch a little over a year after killing a game warden on the premises, police said.

They said Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the fifth Baron Delamere and great-grandson of Kenya's most prominent early British settler, was arrested along with a friend overnight after he told authorities he fired at a suspected poacher on the ranch in the central Rift Valley.

"We have arrested Tom and his colleague and they are currently being held at the Central Police Station in Nakuru and investigations are going on," a senior police official told AFP in Naivasha, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) northwest of the capital.

"We have recovered a 0.303 rifle and five rounds...