Kenyan investigators are looking for a man they fear that businessman Campbell Scott lured his death during a work trip.
Mr. Scott, 58, was found dead by shepherds in Makongo Forest during the weekend – days after he was reported missing and more than 80 miles away from the Nairobi hotel where he stayed.
Officials fear that the senior businessman would be tortured before he was killed, found with his body in a pocket with pineapple.
Now, detectives hunt two men who were seen in the Kenyan capital with Mr. Scott in his last hours.
One of them was captured on security cameras next to the Scot, and local media reported officers that the suspect booked a taxi and then traveled with the businessman to a slum in the city.
The development comes when it emerged, the forest where his remains were discovered, is a well -known landfill for bodies, where the locals are afraid of traveling at night in case they come across murderers trying to hide their crimes.
Scott, originally from Dunfermline in Fife, worked for Credit Corporate Company Fico and was a senior director of Product Management based in the London office.
He arrived in Nairobi for a business trip on 15 February and stayed in Marriot Hotel in the chic Westlands environment of the city.
Images of Kenya's Citizen TV with the latest observation of the murdered Scottish businessman Campbell Scott
Mr. Scott arrived in Nairobi on 15 February for a business trip
Mr. Scott arrived in Nairobi on 15 February for a business trip and stayed at the Marriot Hotel (photo) in the chic Westlands environment of the city
But the following evening colleagues reported him as missing and his body was found in the Makongo forest a week later.
Newley has released CCTV images, shows Mr. Scott, who was dressed in shorts and a Scottish rugby sweater, in the company of another man at 4.39 pm on February 16.
Citizen TV Kenya reported that it is suspected that the man with Mr. Scott asked the taxi and took a ride with the businessman to the slum of the city.
Officers who work on the case have detected and arrested the taxi driver, reported the local press, but he was saved after a statement.
However, his vehicle has been seized.
Kenyan media have said that detectives are working on the theory that he was held against his will in a house in the infamous slum, in the east of the city, while thieves are stole money.
A post Mortem will be performed and detectives analyze Mr. Scott's mobile phone in an attempt to find the murderers.
The television network also reported that the police wanted to find out whether there were financial transactions prior to his murder.
The mutilated body of Mr. Scott was dumped on 22 February in a bag near the Wote-Machakos Road.
The local population has demanded the Kenyan authorities because they are terrified of using the route because of the dangers, with the site a regular landfill for criminals who throw away bodies.
In 2023 the remains of a man and women were found within a few hundred feet from where Mr. Scott was discovered, and the remains of others were found earlier in the area.
Nicholas Muasa, resident of Makongo, said that the stretch of road was 'dangerous' and that 'criminals found a perfect place to dump bodies'.
He told the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation: 'It is better to find a body near the forest than to meet the people who dump it, because that means that yours is the next to be dumped there.
“They will not allow you to go after you witness what they have just done.”
Security camera images seem to show Mr. Scott dressed in freight pants and a blue shirt shortly before his disappearance
Animal herders discovered the remains of Mr. Scott in Makongo Forest, 80 miles southeast of where he had stayed in Nairobi
Local trader Benard Mwangangi, who told how he saw bodies in the forest for the past seven years, said: “This is not the first time a body has been found here.
'The fact that the piece is left by the forest encourages criminals to throw bodies there. We don't feel safe.
“A year cannot end without a body being found in the forest.”
Mr Muasa told the local press: 'Night is scary. The dumping of bodies here shows that criminals know that this area is not protected. We are afraid that everything can happen to us. It is time for the government to end this. '
Thomas Maitha, a local government manager, said that the injuries to Mr. Scott suggest that he seemed to have been “tortured.”
He added: 'The body, which was in a poor condition, encouraged us to escalate the matter further.
“In addition to the physical injuries, the murderers had tied his hands from behind and the body filled in the bag that was full of ripe pineapple.”
