Sarah Njoya, the wife of an alleged poacher shot dead by Thomas Cholmondeley, the heir of Kenya's most famous white settler, listens while sitting in a court in Nairobi, on May 7, 2009. Cholmondeley was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday by a court in which he faced charges of murdering a black man on his ranch three years ago. The 40-year-old Cholmondeley has already spent three years in a maximum-security prison and now faces up to life imprisonment for manslaughter, but could also walk free when sentence is handed down next Tuesday. Getty Images logo Getty Images 33 months ago

Sarah Njoya, the wife of an alleged poacher shot dead by Thomas Cholmondeley, the heir of Kenya's most famous white settler, listens while sitting in a court in Nairobi, on May 7, 2009. Cholmondeley was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday by a court in which he faced charges of murdering a black man on his ranch three years ago. The 40-year-old Cholmondeley has already spent three years in a maximum-security prison and now faces up to life imprisonment for manslaughter, but could also walk free when sentence is handed down next Tuesday.

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