Tuesday, January 25, 2025 – The decomposing body of a man found in a forest at Wote, Makueni County, over the weekend was confirmed as that of missing British national Campbell Scott.
The identification was made by County Commander Alice Kimeli,
who stated that a post-mortem will be conducted on Tuesday at Makueni County
Referral Hospital Mortuary to establish the cause of death.
The body was discovered by herders on Saturday morning, just
days after Scott was reported missing in Westlands, Nairobi.
Detectives from Nairobi, who had been investigating Scott’s
disappearance, traveled to Makueni on Monday morning, accompanied by officials
from the UK Embassy.
They were called in to help identify the body, which was
found in Makongo Forest in Kaiti division, stuffed in a green sack.
Scott, a 58-year-old senior director at FICO, a London-based
data analytics company, had been missing for nearly two weeks.
Scott had arrived in Kenya for a three-day conference and was
last seen on Sunday, February 16th, walking out of the JW Marriott Hotel
in Westlands.
CCTV footage from the hotel showed Scott leaving and
returning on Saturday, February 15th, and again walking out on
Sunday morning.
His colleagues, who had expected to meet him later in the
day, grew concerned when he did not return.
Attempts to reach him by phone were unsuccessful, prompting a
missing person report to be filed by his colleague, Michael Edward, at
Parklands Police Station on Sunday evening.
A police search, including visits to various bars and hotels
in Westlands, yielded no information on Scott's whereabouts.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) had also
sought assistance from Interpol to locate the missing Briton before the
discovery of his body in Makueni.
The
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