A British businessman whose body was found dumped in a sack of pineapples more than 60 miles from his Nairobi hotel may have been kidnapped and tortured before he died.
Animal herders found the remains of Campbell Scott, 58, with his hands and legs having been bound with rope.
Mr Scott, from Dunfermline in Fife, Scotland, was a London-based senior director at US credit scoring firm Fico.
He had flown to Kenya on February 15 for a conference and was staying at the JW Marriott Hotel in the upmarket Westlands area of Nairobi.
Local administrator Thomas Maitha revealed the injuries suggested Mr Scott ‘appeared to have been tortured’.
He said the body, located in scrubland in the Makongo Forest more than 60 miles from his hotel, was in such a bad state that it ‘prompted us to escalate the matter’.
Mr Maitha added: ‘The killers had tied his hands from the back and stuffed the body in the sack packed with ripe pineapples.’
Local media claimed that a taxi driver and nightclub waiter have been arrested.
Campbell Scott (pictured) was murdered in Kenya – his body was dumped in a sack of pineapples and left on scrubland
Animal herders found the remains of Campbell Scott, 58, more than 60 miles from his Nairobi hotel
Mr Scott from Dunfermline in Fife, was staying at the JW Marriott Hotel in Nairobi (pictured)
Police believe that Mr Scott visited a gay bar in the Westlands area the day before he went missing, The Times reports.
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations say that on the day he vanished, Mr Scott returned to the bar to meet a friend before he was taken to Pipeline, one of Nairobi’s biggest slums, in a taxi shortly after 7pm.
Investigators believe he was held at a house in the slum, possibly while money was taken from his bank accounts by his abductors.
Security camera footage showed him seemingly relaxed and jovial on the day he arrived to Kenya.
Local media reported that he left the hotel at 11.15am the following day – and that was the final time he was seen alive.
Colleagues thought he was going for a walk to shake off jet lag but reported him missing that evening.
His body was found on Saturday, six days later. Initial investigations suggest he was strangled to death.
A Fico spokesman said: ‘We will miss his humour and kindness.’
Colleague Toni Harridge described him as a man with a ‘big heart’, adding: ‘Campbell was larger than life, vivacious with a dry sense of humour that endeared everyone to him.’
A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘We are supporting the family.’
