The last moments of slain British businessman Campell Scott who went missing on February 17 form part of the probe into his murder, detectives said.
Scott’s
body was Monday positively identified at the Makueni County Referral Hospital
where it had been lying for two days.
It
was found on Saturday, February 22 in a forest stuffed in a sack and taken to
the local mortuary where officials identified it.
Two
suspects including a waiter at a club in Westlands and a taxi driver have been
arrested and they are under probe for murder.
The motive for this is yet to be known.
The body hitherto unidentified was found about 110 kilometres South East of Nairobi, six days after he went missing.
Scott, 58, a senior director with data
analytics company Fico, arrived in the country on Sunday, February 16,
accompanied by a colleague, to attend a three-day workshop in Nairobi at the JW
Marriot Hotel in Nairobi.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said Scott was captured on CCTV leaving the JW Marriot Hotel with a man, dressed in a white T-shirt and a light pair of blue jeans trousers before they boarded a vehicle.
Investigations led the detectives to arrest the taxi driver and his vehicle was confiscated.
In his statement to the police, the man said he
dropped the Briton together with other people at Pipeline Embakasi.
That was the last time he
was seen. Police are tracing the people he was with that day.
CCTV footage captured Scott
dressed in cargo pants and a blue shirt before walking out.
He came back at around 4pm
and was seen talking to the hotel guards.
The following day on February
17, he left at around 11.15 am and never came back.
Immediately he went missing, the matter was reported
at Parklands police station.
The DCI later involved the Interpol in the joint investigation and operation to trace him.
His call records were then retrieved to
establish those he spoke to before he went missing.
At
least six people have recorded their statements with the police including the
hotel staff and security personnel.
Police
said his friends at the mortuary had confirmed that from his dresses, shoes and
physique he appeared to be the one.
“Subject to further confirmation, for now, we can say he is the one. We don’t know why and who killed him and travelled with the body this way,” said an official in the team that travelled to the scene.
A postmortem exercise was planned on the body on Tuesday, February 25 to establish how he died.
On Saturday around 2pm, Brian Muuo reported that while herding cows at Makongo Forest along the Wote-Machakos road, he saw a green sack whose content smelled.
He informed the area Chief Francis Kanyaa who visited the scene and confirmed that it was the decomposing body of an unknown man, aged around 50.
The body was suspected to have been murdered
elsewhere and dumped at the scene, near Makongo View Point.
Both his hands and legs were
tightly tied with a green nylon rope, police said.
The deceased businessman was
scheduled to meet officials from the UK, the US and several African countries about
markets for their new products.
He joined the company in
2014 from Experian UK.
Scott attended Woodmill High School in Dunfermline before going on to study business and in October 2014 he started working at Fico as its director of product management.
In December 2020 he was promoted to the senior director of product management at the company and was at the time of his death based at its London office.
