The High Court, Thursday morning, directed Sun Africa Hotels to compensate 25million to a Chinese family, following the loss of their daughter, Luo Yi, in 2013.
The family sued the hotel after their daughter died, stating the death had robbed them of their only child who was a breadwinner.
According to Daily Nation, Justice Jacqueline Kamau said evidence presented in court by the hotel stated that Li was taking pictures of the hippo when she was attacked citing that it was hearsay since none of the witnesses saw her.
“The fact that her camera was on standby, if at all it was, is not proof that she was taking the photo of the hippo and could have taken the photos earlier on standby mode,” stated the judge.
The hotel had denied responsibility narrating that Luo Yi had strayed and was taking pictures of a mother hippopotamus who was grazing with her calf, therefore, provoking it and prompting the late-night attack.
“Ms Luo moved too close to the calf hippo and suddenly an adult female hippo, presumably the calf’s mother, charged at and attacked her “ostensibly to protect her calf, and thereby inflicting fatal injuries to the deceased.”
