The Man in the Mask: An Orkney Murder (2025)
Season 1
Full of jaw-dropping twists, this is the extraordinary story of the first murder in Orkney for 25 years as the police suspect a schoolboy of shooting dead a waiter in a restaurant.
Released Nov. 25, 2025
Episode 44 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.crime-documentary, mdblist.has-trailer
Production Companies: BBC Scotland
Network: BBC Scotland
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Witnesses, Woods and Bullets
After the murder of Bangladeshi waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood, schoolboy Michael Ross becomes the police’s prime suspect - but did he do it?
Nov. 25, 2025, midnight
S1E2 - The Schoolboy and the Waiter
Hazel investigates the backgrounds of victim Shamsuddin Mahmood and convicted murderer Michael Ross. She explores whether it could have been a hitman who committed the murder.
Nov. 25, 2025, midnight
S1E3 - The Sniper and the Witness
Twelve years after the murder, a new eyewitness dramatically comes forward saying he saw Michael Ross with a balaclava and a gun just before the murder. Hazel investigates his story.
Nov. 25, 2025, midnight
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BBC Scotland
44 min/ep
132 min
Nov. 25, 2025
Nov. 25, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
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