S14 Ep7: The Orkney Assassin

Blood Ties Podcast by Peter Shevlin

Apr 20, 202634:23Society & Culture

Blood Ties with Geoffrey and Molly Wansell explores one of Scotland’s most haunting crimes and the long road to justice. In 1994, Bangladeshi waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood was shot at point blank range in a busy Orkney resta...

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