British national Campbell Scott, whose body was found in a forest in Makueni.
Head and soft tissue injuries found on British national Campbell Scott’s body, which police initially linked to torture, are too minor to have caused his death, Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor has confirmed.
A postmortem done on Scott’s body Thursday afternoon returned an inconclusive result, leading pathologists to take samples for further tests, including a toxicology screening, to determine the cause of death.
The postmortem was led by Dr Richard Njoroge, who declined to address the media and instead asked that questions be directed to Dr Oduor.
Scott’s body was on Thursday evening transferred to Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi, from the Makueni County Referral Hospital where it has been lying since last Saturday, and where the postmortem was conducted.
“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.
Scott’s body was stuffed in a gunny bag which also had pineapples. Investigators believe that the pineapples were intended to help killers 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.
A herdsman found his partly decomposed body in Makongo forest last Saturday afternoon, and reported to the Mukuyuni chief who then alerted police.
A photo taken on February 24, 2025, showing a Makongo Forest signpost near the location where the body of Briton Campbell Scott was found.
A photo taken on February 24, 2025 at the location where the body of Briton Campbell Scott was dumped along Machakos-Wote highway
Scott and his colleagues were in Nairobi to represent their employer, American data analytics firm FICO, in a product launch.
They arrived on February 16.
Scott was last seen leaving the JW Marriott hotel in Westlands at around 11.15am a day after arriving.
He visited Havana Bar & Restaurant on the last two days he was seen alive. He was in the company of an unidentified man.
A taxi driver and waiter who were in custody helped direct police to a house in Pipleline, where the unidentified man being treated as a suspect took Scott on February 17.
A general view of Makongo forest along the Machakos-Wote highway, where the body of Campbell Scott was dumped in this photo taken on February 25, 2025.
