Tony Parsons: Man who killed cyclist and hid body jailed for 12 years
A drink-driver who admitted killing a charity cyclist by hitting him and abandoning him by the side of the road has been jailed for 12 years.
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A drink-driver who admitted killing a charity cyclist by hitting him and abandoning him by the side of the road has been jailed for 12 years.
McKellar was originally charged with murder - but admitted a charge of culpable homicide. His twin brother Robert McKellar, who helped him move the body to the peat bog, has been jailed for five years and three months.
Alexander McKellar was sentenced today at the High Court in Glasgow over the death of Tony Parsons.
Mr Parsons was killed while on a 100-mile charity cycle from his home in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, to Fort William
Caroline Muirhead, 32, who bravely gathered evidence to help police snare her killer boyfriend Alexander 'Sandy' McKellar, 33, shed tears outside court today as he was jailed for 12 years.