Offbeat Safari • GETTY Tristan had written a letter to friends about the upturn in violence and desperation of local tribes

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The British father-of-two, had written about the “cheap illegal firearms” and that he was “bracing for an armed walk on”.



He described how his son Archie, 24, had recently been “shot at and intimidated” by armed youths at his ranch.

He wrote: “With the tourist lodge we employ 150 people and pay $200,000 (£164,000) in tax every year.



“It is a culmination of 18 years of love and investment but we are bracing ourselves for an armed walk on any day now…

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“Civil wars in neighbouring countries have meant huge quantities of cheap and illegal firearms are at hand to any callow youth.



“If the Laikipia ranch owners upped and left, these people would be happy for a very short space of time as they swamped the land and destroyed every last blade of grass.

“The attitude of ‘if I do not get that last blade, somebody else will’ is paramount and sadly the paradigm that governs most overpopulated pastoral activity today.’”



Voorspuy had ridden out to inspect three torched buildings when he and his horse were shot dead.

GETTY Local politicians have allegedly been stoking anger towards settlers in the region

South African born Voorspuy ran Offbeat Safaris from his ranch - but it had recently been mocked in the Kenyan press, who labelled his firm as “degraded” and “worthless”.



Two men have been charged with his murder and a local MP accused of inciting the violence may also face a murder charge, police have said.

GETTY Tristan had run a safari company since the 1980s