Delamere heir Tom Cholmondeley to be buried today

The late aristocrat Tom Cholmondeley will be laid to rest at his family's Soysambu ranch Friday.

The Nation has established that attendance at the burial is strictly by invitation only.

When the Nation visited the ranch Thursday, guards manning the main gate said visitors were not allowed into the compound.

The burial of the Delamere heir, who died at a Nairobi hospital last week, is expected to be attended by close family members, friends and top managers working on the farm.

On Thursday, the families of Mr Cholmondeley and the late KWS ranger Samson Ole Sisina concluded negotiations on compensation.

Mr Cholmondeley's father and mother agreed to compensation demands by Mr Sisina's widow Lucy Sisina and 22-year-old son John Esho and has agreed to give the family 49 cattle.

The two were part of Thursday’s negotiations.

They have also undertaken to educate Mr Sisina's eight children to university and build the family a decent house.

Twenty-seven elders from the Maasai community were part of the 30-member delegation that travelled from Narok to Mr Cholmondeley's Soysambu ranch in Naivasha where the negotiations were held the whole day.

Only six elders were, however, allowed to take part in the negotiations as the rest waited.

Mr Sisina’s family, which lost a murder case against Mr Cholmondeley 11 years ago, was demanding 49 cows, a commitment by the Delamere family to educate all his children to university level, 27 acres of the Delamere’s expansive ranch and a commitment to finance all projects that the late Sisina was undertaking before he was killed.