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.

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

The court ruled the pair can be held for 21 days for further police investigations in relation to the death of Campbell Scott.