The body of the British businessman Campell Scott who went missing on February 17 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 taxi driver have been arrested and they are under probe for murder.
The motive of the same is yet to be known.
The body hitherto unidentified was found about 110 kilometers South East of Nairobi, six days after he went missing.
Scott, 58, and 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.
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 traveled with the body this way,” said an official in the party that traveled to the scene.
He was last seen on Monday at around 11.15am.
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 a decomposing body of 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.
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.
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.
The deceased businessman was scheduled to meet officials from the UK, US and several African countries about markets for their new products.
He joined the company in 2014 from Experian UK.
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 he left at around 11.15 am and never came back.
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 is currently based at its London office.
Detective from Nairobi who were probing the mystery disappearance of the British rushed to Makueni where the decomposing body of the man was found.
Local officials said they had collected a body of a white man from a thicket after herders found it stuffed in a sack.
The investigators together with officials from the UK High Commission in Nairobi were called in to help in identifying a body found in a forest and which is suspected to be that of the missing man.
He had visited a number of restaurants and bars in the Westlands area.
There are claims the deceased had also visited among others a gay bar in Westlands area before he disappeared.
His company confirmed he was on a business trip to Nairobi.
“Fico is working with our local partners and local authorities to investigate the matter. We do not have any further information at this time. Our thoughts are with Campbell’s family and friends.”
A Foreign Office official said they are supporting the family of a British man reported missing in Kenya and are in contact with the local authorities.
Police planned to move the remains to Nairobi for further investigations.
The team handling the matter had talked to several staff at the hotel and a taxi driver last seen with Scott.
They will decide the way forward after a planned autopsy.
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