Police were able to find the remains of “much-loved” grandfather Tony Parsons thanks to a tip-off from killer Alexander McKellar’s girlfriend after he drunkenly confessed to the crime
After learning her boyfriend had killed a cyclist three years earlier in a booze-fuelled Christmas confession, a woman used a Red Bull can to craftily tell police the location of the body.
As a result of information from the woman, whose name was not given in court, police searched the vast Auch Estate where twin brothers Alexander and Robert McKellar had hidden the body of “much-loved” grandfather Tony Parsons.
Separately, police had earlier received an anonymous letter advising them to look into “the twins” who had been at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel on the night 63-year-old Mr Parsons was knocked down.
At the High Court in Glasgow on Friday, advocate depute Alex Prentice KC read out an agreed narrative. Earlier this week, Alexander McKellar admitted hitting Mr Parsons with an Isuzu D-Max pickup on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy on September 29 2017.