The documentary follows Police Scotland\u2019s Major Investigations Team during the case and will feature interviews with family members, journalists, and the police officers who helped bring brothers Alexander and Robert McKellar to justice.<\/p>\n
In 2023, following an investigation spanning six years, Alexander McKellar was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing Mr Parsons while drunk<\/a>, before hiding his body in a shallow grave on a remote country estate, and trying to defeat the ends of justice.<\/p>\n His twin brother Robert McKellar, a passenger in the car at the time of the fatal collision, was also jailed for five years and three months.<\/p>\n McKellar was speeding at the time of the fatal collision in September 2017, which took place on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy. The two men left Mr Parsons to die, at the side of a dark, remote road before driving to the nearby Auch Estate, where they dumped the damaged car, along with their phones.<\/p>\n The pair later returned to put the cyclist\u2019s body, along with his bike and other belongings, in another vehicle. Mr Parsons\u2019 body was then hidden under a tarpaulin in a wooded section at the Auch Estate, before being taken to another location used for the \u201cpurposes of disposing dead animals\u201d.<\/p>\n The brothers then dug a grave and covered the cyclist with animal remains and bleach before being burying him along with his possessions.<\/p>\n >\u00a0Drink driver who killed charity cyclist and hid body jailed for 12 years<\/a><\/p>\n Mr Parsons \u2013 who was 63 when he was reported missing \u2013 was last seen at around 11.30pm on the evening of 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel in Argyll and Bute.<\/p>\n The former navy officer was in the middle of a 104-mile charity bike ride from Fort William to his home in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, in a bid to \u201cgive something back\u201d after previously being treated for prostate cancer.<\/p>\n Despite repeated police appeals, Crimewatch appearances, the release of CCTV footage, and extensive searches \u2013 involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs, and the force\u2019s air support unit \u2013 the whereabouts of the grandfather or his bike remained a mystery for over three years.<\/p>\n Mr Parsons\u2019 body was only discovered after Alexander McKellar\u2019s girlfriend Caroline Muirhead, who he confided in about the killing, alerted police to the location by leaving a crushed tin of Red Bull at the site of the grave. The brothers were arrested in December 2020, with Mr Parsons\u2019 remains finally being discovered on 12 January 2021 close to a remote farm on the Auch Estate.<\/p>\n In 2023, Ms Muirhead was arrested after failing to turn up for the trial, after claiming that the police allegedly pressured her to continue to spy on the McKellar brothers, who did not know she had contacted the police, in a bid to collect more evidence, and alleging that officers threatened her with legal action if she did not co-operate.<\/p>\n It was also reported that the demands to take part in the upcoming BBC documentary caused her to have a breakdown.<\/p>\n![\"Anthony](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/anthony-parson-glencoe-village-police-scotland.jpg\" "\\"Anthony")
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