{"id":1260,"date":"2026-04-12T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/1260\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:35:09","slug":"four-arrested-over-murder-of-scottish-businessman-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/1260\/","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested over murder of Scottish businessman in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four men have been arrested over the murder of a Scottish businessman whose body was found in a sack in Kenya.<\/p>\n

Campbell Scott, 58, was found dead in Makongo Forest, about 60 miles (96.5km) from Nairobi, where he had been staying, on 24 February last year.<\/p>\n

Detectives in Kenya said the four suspects were arrested following an intelligence-led, multi-agency operation in Ukunda, a coastal town about 16 miles (25.8 km) south of the city of Mombasa.<\/p>\n

The arrests came following a separate probe into a violent robbery involving an American national in Nyali near Mombasa.<\/p>\n

Scott from Dunfermline in Fife, was a senior director at the credit scoring firm FICO and had travelled to Nairobi for a conference prior to his disappearance.<\/p>\n

He was reported missing after failing to meet colleagues to deliver a presentation at the JW Marriott Hotel in the city’s Westlands area.<\/p>\n

Scott was known to have visited the Havana nightclub the previous evening.<\/p>\n

Kenyan police later said they believed he was taken to a property in the Pipeline district, a slum area, about 9.3 miles (15km) from his hotel.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors believe he was held there for a period while attempts were made to extract money from his bank accounts.<\/p>\n

His body was later discovered in a pineapple sack with his hands bound in the Makongo Forest.<\/p>\n

A post-mortem examination proved “inconclusive,”<\/a> but pathologists said the injuries on his body were “too minor” to have resulted in his death.<\/p>\n

Police initially questioned two men, a taxi driver and a nightclub waiter, believed to be among the last to see him alive.<\/p>\n

Two men were later arrested in March last year and one has appeared in court accused of murder.<\/p>\n

Officers then launched an appeal to find three further suspects.<\/p>\n

Credit cards found<\/p>\n

In a statement Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the latest suspects were linked to the murder of Scott and multiple violent robberies.<\/p>\n

They said: “An operation was conducted by DCI officers drawn from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CR&IB) Headquarters, working jointly with their counterparts drawn from SCCIO Nyali and SCCIO Msambweni (Ukunda).<\/p>\n

“The suspects, Bernard Mbusu, Isaac Kinoti Kobia, Evans Muthengi Mutaki and Kelvin Mwangi Njoroge were apprehended at Ideal Apartments, Ukunda.<\/p>\n

“The suspects have also been forensically linked to another robbery with violence incident in Watamu, Malindi Sub-County.<\/p>\n

“A search at the residence led to the recovery of stolen items, including an HP laptop, mobile phones, assorted foreign currencies, multiple credit cards, cheque books from various banks and PDQ [card reader] machines.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four men have been arrested over the murder of a Scottish businessman whose body was found in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[914,910,17,911,913,915,912],"class_list":{"0":"post-1260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-campbell-scott","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-makongo-forest","13":"tag-nyali","14":"tag-ukunda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}