The trial, sentencing, and Muirhead today
Three years later, the trial finally took place. Robert McKellar pled guilty for covering up the murder and was sentenced to five years and three months in jail. Alexander McKellar also pled guilty to both manslaughter and the cover-up and was sentenced to 12 years.
Parsons’ widow, Margaret Parsons, and their children, Mike and Victoria, issued a statement to the BBC that they would “never forgive” the McKellar brothers, saying the duo had “taken Tony and left [our family] for three and a half years not knowing where he was.”
Alexander McKellar’s attorney, Brian McConnachie, told the press that McKellar was not out for revenge against his former fiancée. McConnachie cited that McKellar “never held it against” her for going to the police, saying, “He fully accepts she made the right decision in doing so. He blames no one but himself.”
Muirhead is finally moving forward with her life, putting her romance and the ensuing trauma with McKellar in the rear view. “Since the sentencing, I’ve worked incredibly hard to rebuild and regain control of my life,”. Muirhead said in a statement with Netflix. “It’s only now that I’m finally in a place where I have felt strong and confident enough to tell my story.”
