Four men arrested over shock death of Brit businessman in Kenya

NAIROBI: FOUR men have been arrested in connection to the gruesome death of a Brit businessman whose body was found dumped in a pineapple sack in Kenya.

Campbell Scott, 58, was found dead in Makongo Forest, about 60 miles from Nairobi, days after he flew out to the capital city for a work conference last year.

The arrests come following a multi-agency probe launched by detectives in the East African nation.

Scott, whose “partially decomposed” body was found in a sack of pineapples, is feared to have been kidnapped and tortured before his death. He had travelled to Nairobi just days earlier to attend a business conference.

Scott was reported missing the following day after failing to deliver a presentation at the JW Marriott Hotel in the city’s Westlands area.

Cops tracked his last known sighting to the Havana nightclub. They believe he was then taken to a property in a slum area, about 15km from his hotel.

He was held for three hours as thugs attempted to extract money from his bank account, prosecutors allege.

The group are believed to have tied up Scott’s body and bundled it onto a car before driving over 100 kilometres away where they dumped his corpse.

In a statement Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the four suspects were linked to Scott’s murder as well as a string of violent robberies.

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).

“The suspects, Bernard Mbusu, Isaac Kinoti Kobia, Evans Muthengi Mutaki and Kelvin Mwangi Njoroge were apprehended at Ideal Apartments, Ukunda. “The suspects have also been forensically linked to another robbery with violence incident in Watamu, Malindi Sub-County.

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“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.”

Police initially questioned two men, a taxi driver and a nightclub waiter, believed to be among the last to see Scott alive last year.

Two men were later arrested in March, 2025, and one has appeared in court accused of murder. It comes after a wanted suspect linked to Scott’s murder died by suicide.

Police said Samuel Musembi is alleged to have driven a vehicle that carried Scott’s corpse from Pipeline Nairobi to Makongo Forest. Prior to his suicide, he was alleged to have been hiding at a relative’s house in Dandora, Nairobi.

Detectives say he sought temporary accommodation at a friend’s house in Dandora, and told them that he needed some rest “far away from home” for unknown reasons.

While he was staying there, Musembi is believed to have stabbed himself and was rushed to hospital where he later died. Police said: “The heat on him was too much. He died by suicide.”