Nairobi, March 26 -- The day 27-year-old Tilam Leresh graduated into a Samburu moran was among the happiest times of his life, according to his family.

But the brave moran wouldn't live long enough to enjoy this revered status in the community, raise a family and ultimately transition to an elder in his sunset years, as he would have hoped.

Instead, in the same fields that he spent most of his life, herding cattle and hunting down prey, his life would be brutally cut short by a trigger-happy British soldier.

Twelve years later, a court in Isiolo has fulfilled the family's protracted quest to bring the moran's killer to justice.

Clinging onto the only photo of Tilam adorned in the traditional Samburu attire, his brother Jacob Leresh re...