Campbell Scott murder: DCI launches manhunt for three key suspects

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations is appealing for information from the members of the public that will lead to the arrest of three key suspects accused in the murder of a British national Campbell Scott.

DCI’s homicide team says the suspects, Benard Mbunga Mbusu, Samuel Musembi Kamitu, and Alphonse Munyao Kilewa alias Edu, are linked to the brutal murder of the 58-year-old, whose decomposing body was discovered in Makongo Forest, Makueni.

It is believed the suspects tricked the British national, who was in Nairobi, into a business meeting before he disappeared on February 17, after which he was murdered.

Police have in custody two other suspects who are helping them with investigations.

Alex Mutua Kithuka and Albunus Mutinda Nzioki were presented before Magistrate Lukas Onyina on Monday.

The court was informed that preliminary investigations indicate Scott was taken to Mutua's house in Pipeline, Nairobi, where he is believed to have been murdered.  

The prosecution said that the two suspects allegedly attempted to access money using Scott’s credit cards in Nairobi, Voi, and Mombasa.  

They were arrested on March 1 along the Nairobi-Mombasa Road, and it was established that the first suspect had already moved his belongings out of his Pipeline residence.