Fresh details regarding the gruesome murder of 58-year-old Campbell Scott, a British businessman whose body was found dumped in a thicket and positively identified at the Makueni County Referral Hospital Morgue days after he went missing in Nairobi, have emerged.
On Monday, February 24, new information regarding the last moments of the Briton emerged following the arrest of two suspects linked to the murder by detectives probing the case.
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One of the suspects, a taxi driver, revealed where he dropped Scott after he picked him up alongside his friend at a club in Westlands on February 17 night.
The Briton was earlier in the day seen walking out of the JW Marriott Hotel where he was staying after landing in the country to attend a three-day business workshop.
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CCTV footage captured him leaving the hotel dressed in a blue top featuring the Scotland flag on his sleeve and casual shorts, with his glasses resting on his head. He was also seen carrying several items in his hand.
Investigations by Police have revealed that the 58-year-old walked into a bar in Westlands area where he had drinks with an unknown friend.
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Last moments of Campbell Scott revealed
This was before the duo left the club shortly after 7 p.m. and went on to board a taxi vehicle to an unknown destination.
After investigators from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau intercepted the taxi driver in Westlands to assist in investigations, the driver led them to a house in Pipeline Estate in Nairobi where Campbell Scott and the mystery friend are said to have been dropped off.
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Until Sunday evening, information gathered by detectives was that unknown people held the businessman at the house in Pipeline.
It was not until later that day investigators learned of the discovery of the body in Makueni County and notified the family and colleagues for identification.
Boys who were grazing at sections of Makongo forest in Makueni County near the Wote-Machakos road had bumped into a decomposing body which had been badly mutilated on Saturday, February 22, around 10 a.m.
The matter was then reported to Kivani location chief Thomas Maitha. The local administrator confirmed that the man had his eyes gouged out, ears cut, his hands tied from the back and entire body stashed in a sack which had been packed with ripe pineapples.
Police informed after discovery of body
This prompted the administrator to escalate the matter further and inform the Police on Sunday.
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On Monday morning, homicide detectives accompanied by international police (Interpol), visited the crime scene where they collected pieces of pineapples as they picked clues into the gruesome murder.
The body was wrapped in a sack with limbs tied and was partly decomposed with visible injuries on the hands indicating that Scott may have been tortured before being killed and his body dumped in the thicket.
The detectives then proceeded to the morgue where Scott’s body was positively identified, before the detectives connived a meeting at the Makueni Police Station.
Before he went missing, the businessman from Dunfermline in Britain, who was a senior director with FICO, a data analytics company is reported to have been on a visit in Kenya to meet some senior businesspersons from United States, United Kingdom, and other countries from Africa to discuss about introduction of some products in market.
One day, Scott was a high-flying businessman, preparing to discuss global markets with top officials in Nairobi. The next, he was gone, vanished without a trace after he was last seen leaving a club in Nairobi before his body was discovered more than 100 Kilometers away dumped in Makueni County.
As investigations intensify, Campbell’s body has since been moved to Nairobi where a postmortem is expected to be conducted on Tuesday.
Authorities are working to piece together the events leading to his tragic death and determine the motives behind it.
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