One of BBC Scotland’s “most important brands” is set to return later this year.
Murder Case is made by Firecrest and this new season will examine two new cases – Tony Parsons – The Vanishing Cyclist; and Lucretia ‘Kiesha’ Donaghy.
The series will have two hour-long episodes focusing on Tony Parsons who, in 2017, whilst on a 104-mile charity cycle was killed by a drunk driver and secretly buried in a shallow grave. Alexander ‘Sandy’ McKellar and his twin brother Robert hid the body of the 63-year-old grandfather on a remote estate in the southern Highlands.
It was undiscovered for 3 years until Sandy McKellar confided in his new girlfriend about the killing and took her to the burial site. She was able to pinpoint the remote location to the police by dropping a soft drink can into the ground.
The third programme in the series will be an hour-long examination of the case of mother-of-2, Lucretia ‘Kiesha’ Donaghy. The 32 year old was found dead at her home in Elgin in November 2023.
She’d been bludgeoned with a weapon in the fatal attack and her friend Owen Grant, 43, was later arrested.
Grant went on a spending spree, spending hundreds of pounds on cocaine.
At the murder trial at Edinburgh’s High Court in 2025, the Judge Lord Scott described the attack as “exceptionally savage, frenzied and brutal”.
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“Murder Case is one of our most important brands at BBC Scotland and is hugely popular with the audience,” said David Harron, Commissioning Executive, Factual at BBC Scotland.
“Through its exceptional access to the Major Investigations Team of Police Scotland it has provided the audience with a real insight into the work of detectives on these cases.”
The programmes will feature interviews with the families of the victims, the media who covered the cases as well as the police who brought the perpetrators to justice.
“Filmed over the course of two years from investigation to trial, with the support of Tony and Kiesha’s families, these new cases offer unparalleled access to Police Scotland’s Major Investigations Team, following their quest for answers and justice for the victims and their families,” explained Vari Innes, Executive Producer at Firecrest Films.
“We are proud and privileged to be entrusted with sensitively bringing these harrowing cases to light.”
Further Murder Case series are planned for 2026.
