The main suspect in an investigation into the death of British national Campbell Scott could be hiding in Voi, police sources told the Nation on Friday. Detectives believe the person of interest has answers on the mystery death and the Briton’s final hours.
Police sources told the Nation that a phone registered to the man, who was the last person to be seen with Scott, was tracked to Voi sub-County in Taita Taveta and homicide detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are pursuing the lead.
It is, however, not clear if he is still in Voi or had moved to another location after switching off his phone. Voi is more than 330 kilometres from Pipeline estate in Nairobi, where Scott and the mystery man were last seen.
The suspect left Havana Bar & Restaurant with Scott on February 17, at around 4.39pm. He hailed a cab using his phone, and boarded the vehicle with Scott.
A taxi driver who was placed in police custody led detectives to Pipeline, where he dropped them off.
One waiter working at Havana on the days Scott visited the nightclub was also placed in police custody to aid in tracing the Scotsman, whose case was at the time being treated as that of a missing person.
Government chemist pathologist Richard Njoroge (left) with David Hornus, a representative of Campbell Scott's family, at Makueni County Referral Hospital mortuary on February 27, 2025.
Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group
A screengrab of footage from a security camera in Westlands on February 17 shows Scott and the mystery man leaving Havana that evening.
Scott was dressed in a navy blue Scotland rugby jersey, green cargo shorts and red Adidas sneakers. The mystery man was in a white shirt, blue faded jeans and white sneakers.
The two first met on February 16 at Havana, hours after Scott checked into the JW Marriott Hotel along Chiromo lane in Westlands.
Chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor on Thursday said that samples from Scott’s body have been taken for further tests, including a toxicology screening, after a postmortem showed that physical injuries on the Briton’s body were not significant enough to cause death.
Scott arrived in Nairobi on February 16, and went missing just over 48 hours later.
He was a senior director at American data analytics firm FICO, and was in Nairobi to represent his employer in a product launch alongside Transunion, one of three licensed credit reference bureaus in Kenya.
“Head injury and multiple soft tissue injuries… blunt trauma… Though just to clarify, the injuries as per the pathologists looked too minor to cause death. So they have taken samples to further investigate,” Dr Oduor said.
A team of forensic experts from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and government pathologists at Makueni County Referral Hospital mortuary on February 27, 2025 for the postmortem of slain Briton Campbell Scott.
Photo credit: Lucy Wanjiru | Nation Media Group
Scott’s body was stuffed in a gunny bag which also had pineapples. Investigators believe that the pineapples were intended to help those moving the body to pass themselves off as fruit vendors in the event that they were stopped at police roadblocks. He was reported missing on February 17 by his colleague Michael Edward Manaton.
Another colleague, David Hornus, identified Scott’s body at the Makueni County Referral Hospital, where the postmortem was later conducted.
Scott’s body was transferred to Lee Funeral Home on Thursday evening, and is expected to be flown to the UK.
