NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The heir to Kenya’s most famous  white settler family received eight months in jail yesterday  for shooting a black poacher in a case that has highlighted land  and race tensions in the east African country.

Tom Cholmondeley, grandson of Lord Delamere who came to  Kenya from Britain a century ago, was found guilty of  manslaughter last week for the 2006 shooting of Robert Njoya on  the family’s huge ranch.

At Kenya’s High Court, Justice Muga Apondi said he was  imposing a “light” eight-month sentence given that Cholmondeley  had been imprisoned for three years already, and had tried to  help Njoya with first aid and transport to hospital.