The magistrate court in Kenya has allowed police to hold for 21 days two suspects in a murder case involving a British national whose body was discovered days after arriving in the country for a conference.

Two suspects arrested amid a murder probe into the death of a Scottish businessman in Kenya can be held for 21 days for further police investigations, a court has ruled.

Police are holding two more suspects over the murder of a Scottish businessman in Kenya. Campbell Scott's body was found tied up in a sack of pineapples in a forest 60 miles (96.5km) from Nairobi, after he went missing from his hotel on 17 February. The two men appeared in court accused of withdrawing money using the 58-year-old's bank cards.

Two suspects in the murder inquiry following the death of a Scottish businessmen in Kenya can be held for 21 days for further police investigations, a court has ruled.

Campbell Scott, 58, was found bound and dumped in a sack in the Makongo forest over 60 miles away from his hotel in the capital of Nairobi last month