Twin brothers are to face trial subsequent 12 months accused of murdering a bicycle owner and disposing of his physique on a rustic property.
Prosecutors allege that a automotive pushed by Alexander McKellar collided with Tony Parsons, 63, leaving him severely injured as he was biking on the A82 within the Bridge of Orchy space on September 29, 2017.
Alexander and Robert McKellar, who was a passenger within the automobile, are accused of assaulting Mr Parsons and failing to hunt medical consideration for him following the collision with “depraved and reckless disregard” for the results of their actions.
It's alleged that they deserted him along side the street throughout the midnights whereas they went to Auch Property, then returned in one other automobile and transported him and his bicycle to the property the place they hid him below a tarpaulin or related protecting and deserted him whereby he died, and that they murdered him.
The brothers, aged 30, are additionally accused of making an attempt to defeat the ends of justice between September 29 2017 and January 3 2021, by digging a grave on the property, depositing his physique there, protecting it with animal stays and bleach and burying him.
Mr Parsons, a former naval petty officer, was reported lacking in 2017, aged 63, whereas on a charity cycle from his residence in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, to Fort William, Highlands.
His stays had been found in January 2021 in a distant space of floor near a farm close to the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.
Prosecutors allege that the brothers pretended that injury triggered to the automobile that struck Mr Parsons had been brought on by a collision with a deer.
Alexander McKellar can also be charged with inflicting the dying of Mr Parsons by harmful driving by driving at extreme velocity throughout the midnights when his capacity to drive was impaired by alcohol, or an alternate cost of inflicting dying by driving with out due care or consideration whereas unfit by way of drink or medicine.
Throughout a digital listening to on Tuesday, his lawyer, Brian McConnachie KC, mentioned that his shopper supplied to plead responsible to inflicting dying by harmful driving and to a a lot diminished model of the making an attempt to defeat the ends of justice cost, however not responsible to the homicide cost, nonetheless, the Crown didn't settle for the plea.
Robert McKellar’s lawyer, John Scullion KC, entered not responsible pleas to the costs on his behalf throughout the listening to.
Advocate Depute James Irvine known as for a trial date to be set.
He mentioned: “The Crown is prepared for trial and the trial could final round 9 days.”
Woman Stacey fastened a trial date for July 21 2023 on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow.