Authorities in Kenya have apprehended four individuals in connection with the murder of a Scottish businessman, whose lifeless body was discovered concealed in a sack of pineapples.
Campbell Scott, aged 58, disappeared last year while visiting Nairobi for a professional conference. Originally from Dunfermline, Fife, Scott was found by local herders in the Makongo Forest, approximately 60 miles from Nairobi, with his limbs bound.
Following a coordinated, intelligence-driven operation in the coastal town of Ukunda, Kenyan detectives have announced the arrest of four suspects.
The investigation is linked to a separate inquiry into a violent robbery involving an American national in Nyali, a residential district of Mombasa City.
Before he went missing, Scott, who held a senior director position at the credit scoring company FICO, was set to participate in a three-day workshop. The event was to include senior officials from the UK, US, and various African countries, focusing on market expansion for new products.
Prior to his disappearance, Mr Scott – a senior director at credit scoring firm FICO – was due to attend a three-day workshop with senior officials from the UK, US and several African countries to discuss markets for new products.
After failing to meet colleagues for a presentation at the JW Marriott Hotel in Nairobi’s Westlands area, he was reported missing.
Mr Scott is known to have visited the Havana nightclub the previous evening.
Campbell Scott (pictured) was discovered in the Makongo Forest with his hands and feet tied to a sack of pineapples
Four suspects (pictured) have been arrested following an intelligence-led, multi-agency operation into Mr Scott’s murder, detectives in Kenya have confirmed
He was suspected to have been taken to a property in a slum area known as the Pipeline district, approximately 1.3 miles from his hotel, before his body was dumped.
A post-mortem examination of his body was ‘inconclusive’, however, pathologists said Mr Scott’s injuries were ‘too minor’ to have caused his death.
In March last year, two men believed to be among the last to see the businessman alive were arrested.
An appeal was then launched by officers to find three further suspects.
Among them was Samuel Musembi, who later stabbed himself to death while on the run from police.
Musembi – who initially tried to poison himself – was in hiding at a friend’s house who was unaware of what he had done.
He was brought to hospital where he later died from his injuries.
Samuel Musembi (pictured) a suspect in the killing of Mr Scott, stabbed himself to death after he first attempted to poison himself
Mr Scott (pictured) vanished from a hotel in Nairobi while he was in the Kenyan capital to attend a conference
In a statement, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the latest suspects were linked to Mr Scott’s murder and other violent robberies.
They said: ‘The suspects, Bernard Mbusu, Isaac Kinoti Kobia, Evans Muthengi Mutaki and Kelvin Mwangi Njoroge were apprehended at Ideal Apartments, Ukunda.
‘The suspects have also been forensically linked to another robbery with violence incident in Watamu, Malindi Sub-County.
‘A search at the residence led to the recovery of stolen items, including an HP laptop, mobile phones, assorted foreign currencies, multiple credit cards, cheque books from various banks and PDQ [card reader] machines.’
