The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has released images of three suspects in the murder of British businessman Campbell Scott who are in the wind.
In a statement on Friday, DCI asked for the public’s help tracking three individuals whom it says are linked to the murder of Campbell Scott, a senior director at FICO, who landed in Nairobi on February 14 for a business conference.
Scott was reported missing on February 16 and would be found dead six days later by herders in Makongo Forest along the Wote-Machakos highway—about 140 kilometres southeast of Nairobi. He was found on February 22.
The DCI is seeking to arrest three people whom we will identify with only one name for legal reasons. That is, Benard, Samuel, and Alphonse, whom the agency says have gone into hiding. The pictures are below.
However, what is puzzling is that the DCI had announced their arrest on February 24 for a different case. This is two days after the discovery of Scott’s lifeless body.
“The Directorate of Criminal Investigations is calling upon members of the public to volunteer information that may lead to the arrest of three murder suspects whose photographs are displayed below,” the DCI said in its wanted poster, indicating that the three had gone into hiding.
The DCI announced that it had arrested three robbery suspects reported to have abducted and robbed a pastor of his phone and cash on the night of Thursday, February 22, as he walked to a restaurant near Nyayo National Stadium.
The three were identified as Bernard, Alphonce, and Samuel.
The DCI said the suspects were arrested at their respective residences in Syokimau, Kitengela, and Kamito in an operation led by the DCI Nairobi Area Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau detectives, backed up by their Lang’ata counterparts.
What remains unclear is whether or not the detectives knew that the men were involved in the murder of the Briton before their release.
Scott’s body was found concealed in a sack filled with pineapples. His hands were bound, and evidence of severe torture was apparent: local administrator Thomas Maitha reported that his eyes had been gouged out and his ears cut off.
The DCI arrested a bartender and a taxi driver in connection with the murder and has been granted 21 days to hold them as investigations continue.
The DCI asked the public to reach them via its toll-free hotline at 0800 722 203 at any time to report anonymously or to report to any nearby police station.
