Police plan autopsy on Slain British businessman Scott after family arrives in Kenya

Investigators hope to conduct an autopsy on the body of slain British businessman Campbell Scott on Thursday February 27.

The exercise was postponed twice as the team waited for the arrival of Scott’s family.

Officials said the family arrived on Wednesday and was briefed on the status of the case ahead of the planned autopsy in Makueni.

The findings will form the basis of the police probe.

Even though police said they are investigating murder, they are so far yet to know how Scott died.

The team said they believe he was strangled and hit by a blunt object on his head leading to his death.

Scot went missing from his hotel in Nairobi on February 17 before his body was found in a forest days later.

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.

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.

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.

That was the last time he was seen. Police are tracing the people he was with that day.

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 February 17 he left at around 11.15 am and never came back.

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.

On February 22 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 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.

He joined the company in 2014 from Experian UK.

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.

While in Nairobi, he 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.