Grandad vanished on charity bike ride
Police yesterday issued a fresh appeal for information over the mysterious disappearance of a cyclist in the Highlands exactly a year ago.
Grandad Tony Parsons, 64, from Tillicoultry, was a “good decent man”, according to former naval colleague John Pritchard, who is joining the appeal to find him.
Tony was last seen just before midnight on September 29 last year at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel, on the West Highland Way. He then headed south on the A82 towards Tyndrum on his charity ride from Fort William to his Clackmannanshire home. However, Tony never arrived home and no-one knows what happened to him.
Mr Pritchard, 62, served on a Polaris submarine with Tony, the sub’s former chief petty officer, in the 1980s.
The retired offshore worker said: “It’s incredibly sad and disappointing that nobody has either seen anything, or if they have they have never come forward to say they’ve seen anything.”
Extensive searches of the area were made by coastguard and mountain rescue teams in the weeks after his disappearance.
Police said there had been nothing to suggest anything suspicious had happened to him and his family had suffered an “agonising year”.