TV tonight: the extraordinary story of the 1994 murder that shocked Orkney

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Journalist Hazel Martin talks to Eddy and Moira Ross, whose son was the chief suspect when he was just 15. Plus: secrets are revealed in The Ridge. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two
In 1994, 26-year-old Shamsuddin Mahmood was shot dead as he served food in an Indian restaurant in Orkney. Fourteen years later, teenager Michael Ross was found guilty of the murder. Ross still denies it, and he speaks from prison in this true-crime series. As journalist Hazel Martin re-evaluates events, she also talks to Mahmood’s family, Ross’s mother and some of those who worked on the shocking case. Hollie Richardson

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