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Scottish treasure-seeker killed in remote Kenyan village

He loved gemstones and would brave anything including cobras, marauding elephants and leopards while hunting for the stones in the animal kingdom.

In fact, he preferred spending his nights on treetops during such missions; where he felt safer despite the trumpeting of elephants and hissing of deadly snakes in the bush.

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