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| A soldier who was just 15 when a waiter was "assassinated" in Orkney in 1994 has been found guilty of the murder. | A soldier who was just 15 when a waiter was "assassinated" in Orkney in 1994 has been found guilty of the murder. |
| Sgt Michael Ross, 29, who became a Black Watch sniper, had denied shooting 26-year-old Shamsuddin Mahmood. | |
| As he was being led away at the High Court in Glasgow, Ross jumped out of the dock and managed to escape. He was caught by police officers. | As he was being led away at the High Court in Glasgow, Ross jumped out of the dock and managed to escape. He was caught by police officers. |
| The jury returned the verdict on Ross, now of Inverness, after a six-week trial. He now faces a life sentence. | |
| After the verdict Ross ran from the courtroom through a side door used only by court personnel, pursued by police. | |
| Masked gunman | |
| He was re-captured just outside the courtroom door. | |
| Judge Lord Hardie told the first offender: "In view of the verdict of the jury and the fact you have no previous convictions, I require a social inquiry report before sentencing you." | |
| Ross will be sentenced next month. | |
| Mr Mahmood was shot in the head in Kirkwall's Mumutaz restaurant in full view of a room full of diners, including families with children, by a masked gunman. | |
| Police have released a scene of crime video filmed immediately after the shooting. The video shows a bullet hole in the wall and a jacket on the ground covered by a sheet. | |
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| Police scene of crime video of the murder scene | |
| The killing sparked one of Northern Constabulary's biggest ever investigations. | |
| Ross's father - police officer Eddie Ross who was called to the scene of the shooting - was later jailed for four years for trying to defeat the ends of justice. | |
| Edmund Ross was earlier jailed for four years | |
| The charge was that he withheld information from investigating officers over ammunition he found in his own home. It resembled the cartridge used to kill the waiter. | |
| The murder remained unsolved, but a breakthrough in the case came when new witness Willie Grant came forward. | |
| He claimed he saw who he believed may have been Michael Ross coming out of a cubicle in public toilets on the night of the shooting. | |
| He said the person he saw had a gun and was wearing a balaclava or ski mask. | |
| The Crown claimed all the circumstantial evidence proved his guilt, but the defence asked if a boy of 15 could have committed the crime. |