Four men in court over murder of Scottish businessman in Kenya
FICOFour men have appeared in court over the murder of a Scottish businessman in Kenya.
Campbell Scott, 58, was found dead in a sack in Makongo Forest in February last year, about 60 miles (96.5km) from Nairobi where he had been staying.
Bernard Mbusu, Isaac Kinoti Kobia, Evans Muthengi Mutaki and Kelvin Mwangi Njoroge appeared before a magistrate in Mombasa after their arrest on Saturday.
They have not been charged and were remanded in custody for 14 days for further police investigations.
The court heard that detectives needed time to conduct forensic analysis of the four men's mobile phones, to analyse bank records and gather CCTV footage.
DCI KenyaScott from Dunfermline in Fife, was a senior director at credit scoring firm FICO and had travelled to Nairobi for a conference.
He was reported missing after failing to meet colleagues at the JW Marriott Hotel in the city's Westlands area.
Scott was known to have visited the Havana nightclub the previous evening.
Kenyan police later said they believed he was taken to a property in the Pipeline district, a slum area, about 9.3 miles (15km) from his hotel.
Prosecutors believe he was held there for a period while attempts were made to extract money from his bank accounts.
His body was later discovered in a pineapple sack with his hands bound in the Makongo Forest.
A post-mortem examination proved "inconclusive," but pathologists said the injuries on his body were "too minor" to have resulted in his death.
Two other men were arrested last year over the murder. One was charged with murder and is due to stand trial.
The four men are due to appear at court again on 27 April.
They are also under investigation for separate allegations that they targeted another man in a violent robbery at Nyali near Mombasa.
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