A key suspect in the murder of British national Campbell Scott was Sunday March 2 arrested in Mombasa town.
The suspect was brought to Nairobi ahead of a planned arraignment for a miscellaneous application to detain him.
He is said to have been hiding in Mombasa since the murder of Scott on February 18.
Scott was killed in Nairobi and his body transported to Makueni for disposal.
Police said his at least two accomplices are hiding either in Nairobi or Mombasa.
Homicide detectives said they have a breakthrough in the murder.
They did not disclose the motive of the murder.
“We have the key suspect in the murder of the Briton after his arrest in Mombasa. He will be in court,” said Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin.
The hunt for more suspects is ongoing, he added.
The suspect was expected in court on Monday March 3 at the Milimani Court for the application.
An autopsy on the body of Scott turned inconclusive.
Officials said soft tissue injuries found on Scott’s body are deemed too minor to kill him.
This forced the pathologists to pick samples for further tests.
An autopsy was conducted on the body of Scott at a mortuary in Makueni last Thursday.
Government Pathologist Dr. Richard Njoroge conducted the autopsy.
His family was present.
Police also believe the killers were after his money.
They had held him for days in a house in the Pipeline area in Nairobi before they killed him and transported the body to Makongo forest where it was discovered on February 22.
There are possibilities the killers also accessed his bank accounts. Police are pursuing that angle.
Police say Scott was not new in Nairobi.
There is an indication he had visited the city earlier on.
Scott went missing from his hotel in Nairobi on February 17 before his body was found in a forest days later.On Monday, February 24,
Scott’s body was Monday February 24 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.
The body 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.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said Scott was captured on CCTV leaving the JW Marriot Hotel 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.
That was the last time he was seen.
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.
On February 22 around 2pm, a herder at Makongo Forest along the Wote-Machakos road, he saw a green sack whose content smelled.
He informed the area chief 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.
The deceased businessman was scheduled to meet officials from the UK, US and several African countries about markets for their new products.
While in Nairobi, he visited a number of restaurants and bars, including one frequented by gays in the Westlands area.
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