25-year term in immigrant’s death
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A decorated former member of a renowned British army unit was sentenced to serve at least 25 years in prison for a racially motivated murder he committed as a teenager.
Michael Ross, 30, was convicted in June of walking into the Mumutaz Indian restaurant in 1994 wearing a ski mask and shooting waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood, a Bangladeshi immigrant, as he took a customer’s order. Prosecutors said the motive was racism.
Ross joined Scotland’s famous Black Watch regiment and was decorated for bravery in Iraq in 2005.
Judge Andrew Hardie said Ross was guilty of a “vicious, evil, unprovoked murder.”
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