Detectives Arrest Prime Suspect In Murder Of Briton

A prime suspect in the murder of British national Campbell Scott was arrested in Mombasa town on Sunday, March 2.

The suspect is said to have been hiding in Mombasa since the murder of Campbell Scott on February 18.

He was flushed out of his hiding and brought to Nairobi where police planned to produce him in court for a miscellaneous application to detain him.

Investigators said that at least two accomplices are hiding either in Nairobi or Mombasa.

Homicide detectives handling the matter said they had a breakthrough in the probe following the suspect’s arrest.

They did not disclose the motive of the murder.

The team added that the taxi driver and the waiter arrested earlier on over the matter are innocent and would be used as witnesses.

Director of Criminal Investigations Mohamed Amin confirmed the arrest 

“We have a prime suspect in the murder of Scott. The hunt for more suspects is ongoing. We hope to get more suspects involved in this callous murder,” he said.

The suspect was expected in court on Monday, March 3 at the Milimani Court for the application.

An autopsy on the body of Scott turned inconclusive.

Officials said soft tissue injuries found on Scott’s body are deemed too minor to kill him.

This forced the pathologists to pick samples for further tests.

The autopsy was conducted on the body of Scott at a mortuary in Makueni  last Thursday.

This threw investigators to the drawing board in their quest to establish the cause of the death.

The autopsy was conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Richard Njoroge.

His family was present.

The autopsy failed to reveal what caused his death, forcing them to pick samples for tests at the government chemist.

The police had earlier found injuries to suggest he was strangled or hit by a blunt object.

According to police, after disposing of his body in a forest in Makueni, the suspect proceeded to Mombasa, where they have been hiding.

Police also believe those who killed him were after his money.

They had held him for days in a house in Pipeline area in Nairobi before they killed him and transported the body to Makongo forest where it was discovered on February 22.

There are possibilities that the killers also accessed his bank accounts.

Scott went missing from his hotel in Nairobi on February 17 before his body was found in a forest days later.

Scott’s body was found on February 24, at the Makueni County Referral Hospital where it had been lying for two days.