No Prizes For Guessing...
14 years after the murder of Indian waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood in a busy Kirkwall restaurant, the main suspect at the time has been found guilty. Nothing too odd there, you might think... except the suspect was only 15 at the time of the killing.
I remember hearing the news the night of the murder, how a male in a balaclava had walked calmly into the restaurant, pulled out a gun, and shot the waiter in the head from about 2 foot away... before walking out again and running off down the lane at the side of the restaurant. There were all sorts of rumours and theories at the time... Was it a love triangle? Was it a gangland "hit"? But it appears it was simply a hate crime.
It's never really been forgotten in Orkney, and people have long held opinions as to whether or not Michael Ross was/is guilty. Me? I don't know... The evidence does seem to be mainly circumstantial, but it is compelling... how he had an interest in guns, the racist doodles in his notebook from the time... but could a 15-year-old boy really have killed someone so coolly and not broken under police questioning? Have kept his mouth shut for 14 years? He denies the charges, so I guess we'll never really know.
If he did do it, then I'm glad he's finally been taken to justice and will pay for his crime... But if he didn't... that's an innocent man who could be going to jail for life...
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