A decomposing body confirmed to be of British businessman Campbell Scott was found in a thicket at Makongo Forest in Wote, Makueni County, Eastern Kenya, last week, and two people of interest have been taken into custody, police officials said on Monday.
The 58-year-old Scott, from Dunfermline in Scotland, UK, was reported missing on February 18 when he did not show up for the workshop he had travelled to attend in Nairobi. His colleagues at FICO, a leading analytics software company where he was a senior director, could not locate him, reports said.
On Saturday, February 22, his mutilated body, eyes gouged out, ears cut, and hands tied behind his back, was found in a green sack, buried under leaves in a scrubland along Wote-Machakos Road.
Herders grazing cattle in the thickly wooded section of the forest made the grim discovery, and situations surrounding his death are currently being investigated as a homicide by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), alongside Interpol and other law enforcement agencies.
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The DCI is using forensic collection and analysis in the investigation, police said in a statement.
However, they would not disclose any information on the people of interest due to the ongoing investigation but confirmed that one is a taxi driver and the other a nightclub waiter at a bar in the upmarket Westlands area of the city, where Scott had visited the night before he was due to attend the three-day business workshop hosted by TransUnion, with senior officials from the UK, US, and several African countries in attendance.
Following a preliminary investigation, the DCI reported that he had been at the unnamed bar to meet a friend the day before his disappearance before he took a taxi to Pipeline, one of Nairobi’s largest slums, shortly after 7 PM.
They believe that Scott was held at a house in Pipeline, possibly while his abductors attempted to siphon money from his bank accounts.
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