MURDER CASE: BBC FACTUAL SERIES RETURNS THIS AUTUMN FOCUSING ON TWO NEW CASES

Award-winning documentary series Murder Case will return in Autumn 2025 with a new three-part series on BBC Scotland and BBC iPlayer, focussing on two cases – Tony Parsons the charity cyclist who went missing in 2017 and the violent murder of Lucretia ‘Kiesha’ Donaghy from Elgin in 2023. Murder Case is a BBC Scotland commission, made by Firecrest Films.

The two new cases which will feature in the 2025 TV and BBC iPlayer series will be:

Tony Parsons – The Vanishing Cyclist (2x60). In September 2017, whilst on a 104-mile charity cycle, 63-year-old grandfather Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry was killed by a drunk driver on the A82 near Bridge of Orchy and secretly buried in a shallow grave.

Alexander ‘Sandy’ McKellar and his twin brother Robert hid Tony's body on a remote estate in the southern Highlands. Tony’s body went undiscovered for three years until Sandy 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.

Lucretia ‘Kiesha’ Donaghy (1x60). Mother-of-two Lucretia ‘Kiesha’ Donaghy, 32, was found dead at her home in Elgin in November 2023. Keisha was bludgeoned with a weapon in the fatal attack and her friend Owen Grant, 43, was later arrested. After murdering the defenceless and unarmed Kiesha, Owen 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”.

The forthcoming new series of Murder Case (3x60) features interviews with the families of the victims, the media who covered the cases as well as the police who brought the perpetrators to justice. Further Murder Case series are planned for 2026 and will be announced in 2026.

David Harron, Commissioning Executive, Factual at BBC Scotland says: “Murder Case is one of our most important brands at BBC Scotland and is hugely popular with the audience. 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.”

Vari Innes, Executive Producer at Firecrest Films says: “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. We are proud and privileged to be entrusted with sensitively bringing these harrowing cases to light.”

BBC Scotland’s crime documentaries continue to draw significant audiences in Scotland and across the UK. Both the Murder Trial and Murder Case series feature in the Top 10 ‘most requested’ documentary titles of 2025 on BBC iPlayer with combined audience of nearly 3m streaming requests. The Hunt for Peter Tobin is currently in the Top 20 ‘most requested’ of 2025 with over 1.1m streaming requests on BBC iPlayer.

This year, the Top 3 ‘most viewed’ BBC crime documentaries have been Murder Trial: Girl in the River, Murder Trial: Body in the Warehouse and Murder Case: The Hunt for Mary McLaughlin’s Killer. All three documentaries are currently available on BBC iPlayer.

The Murder Case series are commissioned and executive produced by David Harron for BBC Scotland and Vari Innes is the Executive Producer for Firecrest Films.