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.
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.
Members of Mr Parsons’s family, including his widow Margaret and children Mike and Victoria, were in court for the sentencing.admitted driving on the A82 at “excess speed and when unfit through alcohol”With “reckless disregard” for the consequences of his actions, he left Mr Parsons by the side of the road “in a remote location during the hours of darkness and in inclement weather”, causing his death.
Police launched a major investigation following a tip-off from a woman McKellar had begun a relationship with in 2020, the court heard. The woman left a can of Red Bull in the area where Mr Parsons’s body had been hidden and detectives later found the scene.
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