{"id":33031,"date":"2017-03-06T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tristan-voorspuy-ex-british-army-officer-killed\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:55:43","slug":"tristan-voorspuy-ex-british-army-officer-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tristan-voorspuy-ex-british-army-officer-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Voorspuy, ex-British army officer, killed in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A former British army officer has been shot dead in Kenya, police in the country have said.}<\/p>\n

Tristan Voorspuy was killed by pastoral herders on Sunday in Laikipia while inspecting some of his lodges, a local police official told Associated Press.<\/p>\n

It follows a pattern of traditional herdsmen invading ranches in the area to seize pasture amid an ongoing drought.<\/p>\n

Mr Voorspuy was the founder of luxury safari company Offbeat Safaris.<\/p>\n

Martin Evans, chairman of the Laikipia Farmers Association, said Mr Voorspuy was attacked while inspecting a lodge that had been set alight by so-called “land invaders”.<\/p>\n

When he did not return by Sunday afternoon, an aerial search spotted Voorspuy’s injured horse but did not catch sight of the rancher, Mr Evans said.<\/p>\n

A ground team later found his body by the ruins of the house.<\/p>\n

{{Herders overrun Kenya tourist ranch}}<\/p>\n

Some officials have blamed the land invasions on a severe drought that has made poor herders desperate.<\/p>\n

But ranchers say they are politically-motivated and part of plans to take over their land.<\/p>\n

Some have accused local politicians of inciting the violence in the run up to the general election in August.<\/p>\n

Mr Voorspuy, who was born in South Africa but schooled and raised in Sussex, was in the British army for six years, leaving in 1981.<\/p>\n

After leaving the army, he drove a motorbike from London to Cape Town for nine months, looking for work in Africa.<\/p>\n

He created Offbeat Safaris in 1990.<\/p>\n

Mombasa-based business Scenic Air Safaris posted a tribute on its Facebook page, saying: “Our thoughts and prayers go to his wife Cindy and family and to his friends and partners at Sosian Lodge and Offbeat Safaris.<\/p>\n

“A true officer and a gentleman.”<\/p>\n

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are offering support to the family of the British national who has died in Kenya and we are in touch with local authorities.”<\/p>\n

\"Tristan<\/figure>\n

Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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