A key suspect in the murder of British businessman Campbell Scott was found unresponsive with stab wounds in a house in Dandora, Nairobi.
Samuel Musembi Kamitu was wanted over the murder of the Briton.
He died at the Kenyatta National Hospital where he was rushed after he was found with a self inflicted stab wound in the neck.
Musembi is said to have driven the vehicle that ferried 58-year-old Scott’s body from Pipeline in Nairobi to Makongo Forest in Makueni county.
The body was found in a sack that had pineapples.
He had been hiding at a friend’s house in Dandora, Nairobi.
Police said Musembi had sought a 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 to his work place, leaving behind Musembi in his house resting.
When he came back 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 and they 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 March 11 night where he died on Wednesday morning at the casualty while being attended to.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Musembi had first taken some poisonous substance for suicide, but when it was not working, he stabbed himself on the neck and some parts of his body.
DCI were finalising plans to have Musembi’s DNA and fingerprints taken as a search for the man who had housed him intensified.
Police said Musembi first attempted to commit suicide by ingesting poison and was rushed to a local hospital where he was recuperating.
He was discharged and on Tuesday evening before he stabbed himself several times and was rushed to KNH where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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 said.
It is believed 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 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 arrested 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.
The prosecution said that the two suspects 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 revealed that he has a criminal past dating way back to 2018.
On May 17, 2018, Mbusu together with three other men lured Shadrack Kimanzi to Wema Kabete Flats in Lower Kabete where they forced him to undress before taking his photo with another naked man in bed.
They then showed him the photos and threatened to share them with his friends and family members if he did not give them money.
Kimanzi had travelled from Mombasa to Nairobi on May 12, 2018 for some official duties. The suspects, who were his friends on Facebook, called and told him that they had seen from his post that he was in Nairobi.
They then invited him to the house and he was picked by one of the men from the stage.
When he went to the house he realized that there was only one bed.
Three other men emerged from under the bed and ordered him to remove his clothes, police said.
One of the suspects also removed his clothes and took him to bed. The others took photos of the two of them while naked in bed. The gang also robbed him of his laptop, cash and mobile phone before releasing him.
He later reported to the police and officers immediately rushed to the house but did not find anyone.
They then decided to lay an ambush.
Police raided the house and managed to arrest three suspects -John Kinoti Kobia, Mbusu and Urbanus Kisila Nyanzwi.