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A nightclub employee and a taxi driver have reportedly been arrested after a British businessman was kidnapped, murdered and dumped in a sack in Kenya.
The physique of Campbell Scott, 58, who vanished 9 days in the past, was discovered dumped in a forest exterior of Nairobi. His palms and legs had been certain with rope, in response to the BBC.
Kenya’s Directorate of Felony Investigation (DCI) have arrested two individuals in reference to Mr Scott’s kidnapping and homicide, native information website Tuko reported.
The businessman, who was born in Fife, Dunfermline, was within the African nation attending a convention on the JW Marriott lodge in Nairobi for the information analytics firm Fico.
CCTV broadcast on Kenyan tv captured his final recognized actions, displaying him crossing the highway exterior of his lodge sporting a Scotland rugby shirt on 16 February.
He was seen smiling and waving at lodge workers earlier than stepping into to the bar, in response to native studies.
The Occasions beforehand reported Kenyan police consider Mr Scott had visited a bar within the upmarket Westlands space of Nairobi on the day earlier than he disappeared. It’s understood that he returned to the bar on 16 February earlier than taking a taxi to one of many metropolis’s largest slums.
He was reported lacking after failing to fulfill colleagues to go over a presentation on the lodge and stopped answering his telephone.
Detectives advised native media they believed he had been held in a room in Pipeline, a slum space of town, presumably whereas his abductors tried to steal cash from his financial institution accounts.
Additionally they discovered Mr Scott had bruises on his palms, suggesting he was tortured earlier than being killed and dumped in Makongo Forest, round 60 miles southeast of the Nairobi, the place his physique was found on February 22.
In a press release on Monday night, Fico confirmed that Nairobi police had recognized the physique as Mr Scott’s.
Of their assertion, Fico stated: “Campbell went lacking final Sunday whereas on a enterprise journey to Nairobi. We’re not sharing additional particulars, because the investigation is within the palms of the police.
“We’re devastated by this tragic information. Campbell was a pacesetter in our worldwide Scores enterprise. He joined Fico in 2014 and was instrumental in introducing Scores to new markets and rising our enterprise with present partnerships.
“We mourn his passing and can miss his humour and kindness.”
The UK International Workplace stated beforehand that it had been in contact with Kenyan police, who’ve additionally requested the help of Interpol in accessing his name information.
An in depth buddy had described Mr Scott as “the kindest individual on the planet” who “will do something for anybody”.
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