Family of charity cyclist killed by drink-driver who buried his body win six-figure compo payout

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The family of a Scots charity cyclist killed by a drink-driver who later returned to conceal his body have been award a six-figure compensation payout.

Grandad Tony Parsons was hit by a speeding car driven by drunk Alexander McKellar on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy, Argyll and Bute.The 63-year-old was killed while undertaking a 100-mile charity ride from his home in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, to Fort William on September 29, 2017.After hitting Mr Parsons, evil McKellar and his twin brother, Robert, went on to return to the scene and moved Mr Parsons’ body to the Auch Estate where they buried him with an excavator in a peat bog where animal carcasses were disposed of.

Tony was registered as a missing person and his remains were undiscovered for more than three years. His widow Margaret and children Mike and Victoria launched a civil action into his death which was settled the day before a trial was due to begin at the Court of Session.Lawyer Gordon Dalyell of Digby Brown Solicitors said: “While compensation does not, in any way, heal the pain, it does help protect the futures of his relatives.”Almost four years after Tony's disappearance, a major investigation was launched by police when officers received a tip-off from a woman McKellar had begun a relationship with in 2020.She had asked him if there was anything from his past that may affect their relationship, and he told her he had hit Mr Parsons with an Isuzu D-Max pick-up while speeding.He had said to the woman that he had been “distracted” by headlights and struck something on the side of the A82, which turned out to be Mr Parsons.McKellar took the woman to the burial site, where she marked it with a can of Red Bull.The two men were arrested on December 20,