A person in Kenya has been charged with the homicide of a Scottish businessman whose frame used to be discovered dumped in a sack of pineapples.
Appearing on Tuesday at Makadara High courtroom by way of video hyperlink, Alex Mutua denied killing Campbell Scott, 58, who used to be discovered lifeless in a woodland in February after he went lacking within the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Mr Scott, from Dunfermline, Fife, used to be came upon by way of native herders along with his palms and ft tied to a sack of pineapples.
Mr Mutua is accused of committing the violent homicide along different suspects, who didn’t seem ahead of the courtroom.
Prosecution attorneys have filed a sworn statement opposing bail, and the courtroom suggested them to post the affidavit inside of 3 days officially.
Mr Scott were within the African country for a trade assembly ahead of his grotesque homicide.
It comes months after a fugitive suspect sought after for homicide of the businessman stabbed himself to loss of life whilst at the run.
Following the loss of life of Mr Scott, Kenyan police introduced a manhunt with Samuel Musembi being some of the suspects legislation enforcers had been in search of.
Undated handout photograph issued by way of Fico of Campbell Scott, a Scottish businessman who went lacking in Kenya. His frame used to be discovered days later in a sack of pineapples in a woodland round 66 miles south-east of Nairobi on the weekend
Mr Musembi is thought to have stabbed himself a couple of instances after he first tried to poison himself again in March, the Kenyan newsletter Nation reported.
He used to be believed to had been in hiding at a chum’s space who used to be ignorant of what he had achieved.
Once he learnt of his crime he reported him to the police, ahead of finding him subconscious at the mattress.
He used to be rushed to sanatorium the place he later died from his accidents.
Other suspects nonetheless at the run are Alphonse Munyao Kilewa, alias Edu, and Bernard Mbunga Mbusu.
Mr Mutua will seem in courtroom on June 17 for a pre-trial. He these days stays in custody.