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g bullets as he thought they had been handed back to him after being used for target practice in what would be a “training scenario”.
Mr Chisholm described the revelation as “jaw dropping”.
Following the breakthrough police made further discoveries, including finding a Blood Mix compound – a chewing gum used by the British Army – in the pockets of Michael Ross’s clothing.
The teenager had joined the army and had been using it while on leave at home.
Ross was arrested and was taken to Inverness where officers interviewed him over four days.
With an initial reluctance to talk detectives built a timeline and placed him in the town at various key times linked to the murder.
Mr Chisholm said: “He effectively wrote his own ticket in terms of putting himself at various points at the incident and various connections around the firearm.”
Ross eventually confessed and was charged with murder.
He stood trial at the High Court in Glasgow in 2008.
Mr Chisholm, who gave evidence in the trial, said Shamsuddin Mahmood’s final moments were “pretty horrific”.
Ross was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mr Shafiuddin recalled receiving the news of the verdict and said: “It was very, very emotional for me.
“I cried and cried. He was providing for the whole family in Bangladesh.”
Michael Ross has always protested his innocence and his mother said she continued to believe in him.
Mr Chisholm added: “I think the way he was portrayed during the trial was he was very hardy, very much a military man.
“But he was obviously under stress , his heart rate went through the roof, his hands were shaking.
“It was the mind of a young man from Orkney having totally lost his way.”
Mr Amer, who attended the trial, said the images of a young family surrounded by relatives with their heads in their hands, crying in the public gallery, encapsulated the “sadness, disbelief and shock that went through Orkney” over the crime.
Michael Ross has now served his tariff but remains in prison as he has not admitted the crime or shown remorse.
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