S14 Ep7: The Orkney Assassin
Blood Ties Podcast
Peter Shevlin
4.4 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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 restaurant, shocking a quiet island community.
With eyewitness accounts, twists in the investigation, and a web of unanswered questions, the case would remain unresolved for 14 years.
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Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell
Producer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Blood Ties. |
| 0:13.0 | The terrible events all took place in the early evening 715 of June 2nd, 1994, the restaurant was pretty full. |
| 0:30.6 | There were children, parents, one of the children recounts the trauma of the events. |
| 0:49.8 | What happened was a man dressed in dark clothing wearing a balaclava, walks into the restaurant quite calmly, walks up to this man, Shamsuddin Mahmoud, and shoots him through the head. |
| 1:18.6 | Music Hi, I'm Molly Wonsall. And I'm Geoffrey Wonsall. |
| 1:20.6 | We're a father and daughter, as those of you who listened to Blood Ties in the past will remember, |
| 1:24.6 | and we meet every week and often our conversation has turned to murder, |
| 1:29.0 | which is why we originally launched blood ties and why we've now decided to bring it back |
| 1:33.9 | in its new fresher form. |
| 1:36.2 | We're really excited to be back and we would love it if you could also check out our Patreon. |
| 1:41.2 | Just search Blood Ties on Patreon. |
| 1:43.2 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:44.0 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:48.4 | Hi, everyone. |
| 1:51.5 | Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm Molly Wansel and I'm here with my father, Jeffrey Wansel. |
| 1:56.1 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:56.9 | Welcome back to Blood Ties 2.0. |
| 1:59.7 | We hope you're enjoying it. We're enjoying doing it again. |
| 2:03.8 | It's a bit of a shop. We started, I think, in 2017. Did we? I think so. |
| 2:11.6 | I'm so bad with dates. I don't know how you and mom are both able to be like, oh yeah, I did that that in the summer of 78. Or like, oh, that was when we went to Cheltenham in 1992. And I'm like, how on earth do you remember? Like, you're like, oh, yeah, that happened in the summer of 1980s. I think it's, I think it's just the older you get, the more you think about things in the past. I don't remember the dates of anything. I mean, I just about can remember the dates. I left school, graduated uni, and started in my two workplaces. Okay. Outside of that. Not much. I can't help you. Oh dear. Oh, dear. Well, I can remember quite a lot of dates. Yeah, you can. You both do. I don't know how. So, yeah, I just wondered if it's just a generational thing. Probably. Probably generation. I wonder how much, you know, not that I didn't get a mobile phone until I was 16 and smartphones didn't come in until I was in my 20. |
| 3:07.6 | I still had a Blackberry when I first started when I was working and I was 24. |
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