The Restaurant: Episode 241

June 1994, 'Love is all around us' was still number one.

It was just an ordinary night in the Indian Restaurant in Kirkwall in The Orkneys, when at 7.15pm, the man entered wearing a balaclava. He walked up to the Restaurant Manager, 27 year old Shamsuddin Mahmood, and fired one bullet....

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• MICHAEL ALEXANDER ROSS v. HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE (scotcourts.gov.uk)
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• I DIDN'T MURDER ORKNEY WAITER: Convicted Black Watch soldier writes from his prison cell | Scotland | News | Express.co.uk
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