A suspect who was on the run over the murder of British businessman Campbell Scott died by suicide on Wednesday, police have said.
Samuel Musembi was wanted over the murder of the Briton.
Musembi is alleged to have driven the vehicle that ferried 58-year-old Scott’s body from Pipeline Nairobi to Makongo Forest in Makueni county.
He had allegedly been hiding at a relative’s house in Dandora, Nairobi.
Detectives said Musembi had sought temporary accommodation in a friend's house in Dandora, whom he allegedly told that he wanted to have some rest far away from his residence over unknown reasons.
The friend told the family that he on Tuesday morning left the house for his workplace, leaving behind Musembi in his house resting.
He told the family Musembi looked restless.
However, upon return in the evening, the friend is said to have found the door locked from inside, forcing him to break the door to gain entry.
It was then that he found Musembi lying on the bed with foam emitting from the mouth and nose and blood oozing from his neck.
He had a stab wound. The friend, after notifying family members and neighbours rushed Musembi to Mama Lucy hospital, where they were turned away on grounds that the case was serious.
He was rushed to Kenyatta National Hospital on Tuesday night, where he died on Wednesday morning at the casualty while being attended to.
“The heat on him was too much. He died by suicide,” an officer aware of the probe claimed.
Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin confirmed Musembi had died probably by suicide.
“Autopsy will reveal more on the cause of death,” Amin said.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Musembi is suspected of first having taken some poisonous substance in an attempted suicide, but when it was not working, he stabbed himself in the neck and some parts of his body.
The family and hospital later informed police of the developments.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) was finalising plans to have Musembi's DNA and fingerprints taken as a search for the man who had housed him intensified.
The host is yet to be found.
The DCI had on March 7 called upon members of the public to volunteer information that may lead to the arrest of Musembi and two other suspects identified as Benard Mbunga Mbusu and Alphonse Munyao Kilewa alias Edu.
“The suspects are linked to the brutal murder of 58-year-old Briton, Campbell Scott, whose partially decomposed body was found on February 22, 2025, in Makongo Forest, Makueni Sub-County. Scott had arrived in the country just days earlier to attend a business conference,” the DCI claimed.
It is alleged the suspects tricked the British national, who was in Nairobi, into a business meeting before he disappeared on February 17, after which he was murdered.
They allegedly tied his body and bundled it onto a car before driving more than 100 kilometers away where they dumped the body in a thicket in Makueni.
Detectives have in custody two other suspects who are helping them with investigations.
Alex Mutua Kithuka and Albunus Mutinda Nzioki were presented in court on Monday last week.
The court was informed that preliminary investigations indicate Scott was taken to Mutua's house in Pipeline, Nairobi, where he is believed to have been murdered.
According to the prosecution, the two suspects allegedly successfully attempted to access money using Scott’s credit cards in Nairobi, Voi, and Mombasa.
They were arrested on March 1 along the Nairobi-Mombasa Road, and it was established that the first suspect had already moved his belongings out of his Pipeline residence.
Mbusu, who is also yet to be apprehended, is said to be the man who was on February 16 captured on CCTV with Scott before he disappeared.
Detectives claimed that he has a criminal past dating way back to 2018.
