Kenyan detectives say they will catch the killers of a Scots businessman they fear was tortured before being murdered and dumped in a forest.
Campbell Scott was found dead by herdsmen in a sack of pineapples around a two hour drive from the Nairobi hotel he was staying at.
The 58-year-old had been in the country on business but vanished from the luxury Marriott Hotel he had been staying at the day after he arrived.
Colleagues reported him missing and an intensive police search for him ended in tragedy when his body was found six days later.
It is feared he had been tortured before being killed, and when his body was discovered in the Makongo Forest his hands and legs were tied up.
Yesterday the Kenyan National Police Service said it was a ‘heinous, heinous crime’ which was now subject to a ‘intricate and complex’ investigation by specialist police.
A police spokesman said: ‘It’s really tragic, but we’re all told that the authorities are going to get to the bottom of this.
‘We are confident somebody will be held accountable for this.’
Campbell Scott was found dead by herdsmen in a sack of pineapples in the Makongo forest in Kenya
A taxi driver and nightclub waiter have been arrested on suspicion of his abduction and murder following the death of Mr Scott
It comes as a postmortem was carried out yesterday as detectives try to work out how he died.
But chief pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor told the Daily Nation newspaper it was inconclusive as the soft tissue injuries found on Mr Scott’s body were deemed too minor to kill him. There will be further tests, he said.
Almost two weeks have passed since Mr Scott travelled to Nairobi on business, going to Kenya to attend a conference in its capital on behalf of his firm Fico.
Despite the assurances of Kenyan police his killers are still on the loose.
He checked into his hotel in the Westlands district of Nairobi on February 15, but was last seen alive the following day.
Two men were seen with Mr Scott in the final hours he is known to be alive – with detectives now on the hunt for them.
One of them was captured on security cameras alongside Mr Scott, and local media reported officers believe the suspect booked a taxi and then travelled with the businessman to a notorious city slum.
In the footage broadcast on Citizen TV Kenya the suspect was alongside the Scot, who worked at credit scoring firm Fico as its senior director of product management, at 4.39pm on February 16.
Detectives have said to local press that they have tracked down and arrested the taxi driver and impounded his vehicle.
After he gave his statement, however, he was released on bail.
Kenyan investigators are said to be working on the theory that Mr Scott was held against his will in the Pipeline slum while thieves stoke money.
His phone is being analysed to find out if there were any financial transactions made.
Mr Scott’s mutilated body was found near the Wote-Machakos road on February 22 in the forest which is a well known dumping ground for bodies.
Fearful locals have told how they are too terrified to travel at night in case they encounter murderers trying to cover up their crimes.
One man told a local news outlet that lack of patrols in the area meant criminals had ‘found a perfect place to dump bodies’ and added: ‘It is better to find a body near the forest than meet the people dumping it as that means yours will be dumped there.
‘They will not allow you to do after witnessing what they have done.’
Local government administrators have previously told how the nature of Mr Scott’s injuries suggest he ‘appeared to have been tortured’ and his killers had ‘tied his hands from the back’.
