How a Red Bull can helped solve mystery of missing cyclist

Two months have passed when Dr Caroline admitted that Muirhead had killed a new boyfriend and left her in a shallow grave.

Alexander McKellar offered him to take him to his buried place – and his quick thought was very important to break a case that surprised the police for three years.

Caroline secretly left a box of Red Bull to a distant property in Argyll, and then called on the police to explain the location.

The shallow grave included Tony Parsons’s body, who disappeared on a charitable journey three years ago.

Tony’s son Mike said that without Caroline’s intervention, it wasn’t possible that his body was unlikely – and he expressed his gratitude for what the family did.

Subject to lawsuits A new two -part documentary This reveals the bending and return of the police investigation and the long -term justice of the Parsons family.

Mike Parsons told the BBC Scotland News that his father has always been determined to complete any difficulties he has determined.

Tony was treated for prostate cancer before and wanted to give back something.

So he planned a 104 -mile charity for his home from Fort William to his home in Tillicoultry, departed on Friday, September 29, 2017 and rolled a bike throughout the night.

Mike said his family began to worry when Tony did not contact them on Saturday night.

“Actually, I texted him to myself, my father and my own understanding of humor, a simple text: ‘You still live?’

“Now, when I look back, it is not nice to know that it is the last thing I have sent to him, knowing that he will die at this point.”

Tony was reported to be missing laterA big search process spark.

The police knew that he had passed through Glencoe Village on Friday at 18:00 on Friday before he went to the Orchy Hotel Bridge in Argyll.

His last known view was at 23:30 that night before going to the south in A82 in Tyndrum direction.

As the days progressed, former police officer Mike and his family were increasingly worried about Tony.

“I knew the timeline to be included,” he said.

“The longer the days took, the more I knew the chances of being alive in my head would be quite weak.

“But I had to convince my mother that it was still a chance, and it’s not easy to lie to someone like that.”

Despite a large number of public objections, including Mike’s appearance in Crimwatch, Tony Parsons had disappeared into the thin air.

Later, at the end of 2020, the police bought a phone that would change everything.

The caller was troubled.

He said he had information about a crime committed in Orchy Bridge three years ago.

A hits and running was about hiding a body and lying to the police.

He said the victim’s name was Tony Parsons.

The caller was Dr Caroline Muirhead, Alexander McKellar’s girlfriend. He worked with his twin brother Robert, known as Sandy, on a nearby property.

The police spoke to the brothers after an anonymous letter in August 2018, the night of Tony Parsons, they were on the Orchy Hotel bridge, but there was no other operation.

In June 2020, they were questioned again about Tony and confirmed that they were at a hotel with a hunting party that night. But they said they didn’t see the cyclist.

In November 2020, Caroline Muirhead and Alexander McKellar have been together for two months.

He asked his boyfriend if there was something that could affect his future together.

He said he hit Tony with his brother on his way home with his brother, but he did not receive medical aid.

Later, it turned out that Tony’s injuries were so bad that he would survive only 20 or 30 minutes without help – but he wasn’t likely to die instantly.

The twins left the area and returned to the area in another car before taking Tony’s body to Auch property.

Mike Parsons said: “What they do is inhuman and you don’t do it to animals.

“They killed him by not looking for any medical treatment.”

After confessing to his girlfriend, Alexander McKellar took him to the shallow grave where Tony’s body was buried.

Caroline then left a Red Bull box as a sign for the spot before calling the police.

Mike Parsons said he showed “remarkable foresight”.

“To be ruthlessly honest, I’m not so sure whether I was in the same situation, and I would think in the same way.

“I have nothing but gratitude for my point of view, for this, because if he hadn’t done it and put himself in these positions, then we would never find my father’s body.”

Tony’s body was rescued After a two -day operation by expert officers from the grave in January 2021.

Following the collision, “disaster” was found to live in ribs, pelvic and spine fractures.

Tony’s funeral It was held in Stirling Crematorium in April 2021.

The brothers were arrested and questioned twice by the police, but he did not cooperate at the beginning, he gave interviews “no comment”.

The police finally accused the couple of murder against the assembly of the twins.

In July 2023, shortly before the hearings started in the High court in Glasgow, Sandy McKellar confessed Reducing the crime of criminal murder.

His brother was not guilty of accepting the murder, but the couple admitted that they were trying to defeat the end of justice by covering the crime.

Sandy McKellar He was sentenced to 12 years in prisonHis brother was sentenced to five years and three months in prison.

Mike Parsons said no sentence would be enough.

“They left my mother without her husband and left us without a father.”

Mike said he wanted his father to be remembered for his goodness rather than the conditions of death.

“For me, he was a grumpy old father with your running every time,” he says, smiling.

“But I want people to remember him as a man who wants to help everyone.”