manslaughter

KENYAN ARISTOCRAT KILLER JAILED FOR 8 MONTHS

Aristocrat Thomas Cholmondeley Via BBC News / The Metro A court has sentenced a descendant of Kenya’s most famous white settlers to eight months in prison for the manslaughter of a black man on his vast estate. Thomas Cholmondeley was convicted of manslaughter last week over the 2006 shooting of a 37-year-old black poacher Robert Njoya. Manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in Kenya. Correspondents say the case has touched on deep sensibilities in Kenya, where white people took vast []

UK NEWS: GRANDMOTHER CONVICTED OF CAUSING THE DEATH OF INNOCENT SHOPPER /CCTV IMAGES

Victim Kevin Tripp was killed by a single punch to the head. Via The Daily Mail His face contorted with rage, a thug kills an innocent shopper with a single blow after a trivial argument over queue jumping in Sainsbury’s. A chilling sequence of startlingly clear CCTV images shows Tony Virasami – who was wearing an electronic tag at the time of the offence – mistakenly identifying Kevin Tripp and then striking him. Mr Tripp, 57, a father of one who was in []

UK NEWS: MAN JAILED FOR KILLING BNP ACTIVIST

An Asian man who killed his BNP activist neighbour in a dispute has been jailed for eight years. Habib Khan, 50, of Stoke-on-Trent, was convicted in May of the manslaughter of 52-year-old Keith Brown whom he stabbed with a kitchen knife last year. Mr Khan’s son, Kazir Saddique, was sentenced to a year in prison and a year on licence after admitting the unlawful wounding of Mr Brown’s son. Khan said that living next door to Mr Brown for five years had []