NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - One of Kenya’s most prominent white aristocrats was released from prison Friday after more than three years in jail for killing a black poacher on his vast family estate.

Thomas Cholmondeley (CHUM-ley), jailed since the 2006 shooting, was sentenced to eight months in prison earlier this year for manslaughter in the death of 37-year-old Robert Njoya.

The judge had reduced the charge from murder, saying he believed Cholmondeley’s attempts to give Njoya first aid helped prove that he accidentally shot the poacher.

Njoya’s death was the second time in just over a year that Cholmondeley had shot and killed a black man on his largely ungated farm.