How hitman-style assassination baffled remote UK island for over a decade… before mysterious letter revealed takeaway killer's true identity
Families were dining in the island's only Indian restaurant when a masked man calmly walked in and killed 26-year-old waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood at point black range, before vanishing into the night without uttering a single word.
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The murder scene shows a bullet hole in the wall where Mahmood was shot
Credit: Coll MacDougall
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Waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood was murdered with a single bullet in the Mumataz Indian Restaurant in Kirkwall, Orkney
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