FITTED UP AND FIGHTING BACK

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Add to Calendar 2022-05-31 05:30:00 2023-11-26 11:52:32 Prof. G Shainesh’s co-authored book ‘Marketing Management’ set to launch on May 31 Twenty years in jail enhanced rather than diminished this reputation. “There is a lot of bullying and intimidation. I hated to see it going on. I didn’t care who it was, or how big they were. It’s a strange thing, but the only fear I have ever felt is the fear of losing. The embarrassment of it.” In among all the fragments of new evidence and the coincidences, and within documents that they believe are being withheld, Lane believes the truth about Magill's murder can be found. He insists he will not admit to a crime he did not commit, even though that may affect his chances of getting out now he is approaching the end of the minimum 18-year prison term set by the court. The Bill of Rights will give experienced police officers greater flexibility to allocate resources based on their professional judgement, rather than because of the threat of legal action." One force reported that up to 75% of all threat-to-life notices may be issued to serious criminals or gangs, he added.

In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the largest land empire in the Americas, reaching the pinnacle of South American civilization. Known as the “Romans of the Americas,” these fabulous engineers converted the vertiginous, challenging landscapes of the Andes into a fertile region able to feed millions, alongside building royal estates such as Machu Picchu and a 40,000-kilometer-long road network crisscrossed by elegant braided-rope suspension bridges. In 1998, the Osman family successfully argued in the European Court of Human Rights that the Met Police had breached Mr Osman's right to life because it had all the information it needed to deal with the threat. In the book, Lane quotes everyone from Voltaire to Hunter S Thompson to Juvenal and is also revealing on the state of prisons today. Lane has had to turn detective and lawyer to keep his case from disappearing completely. With a secondhand laptop on his knees, he has been working on legal challenges for 40 hours a week during all the time he has been inside.

Compared to reading a piece of writing that hails from the culture in question, reading a history is a far less immersive experience, but it provides a different level of insight. I might learn less of what daily life was like and how the Incans thought and believed, but I'll learn a lot more about their economic practices, their technological abilities, and their food choices. In that sense, I would call Kevin Lane's The Inca a broad overview that is ideal for dipping your toe into the sea of information we have on the Incan Empire. The victim … Robert Magill, who was shot dead as he walked his dog in a Hertfordshire beauty spot. Photograph: PA/EMPICS Sports Photo Agency

In The Inca, Lane, a researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, offers a concise and well-illustrated introduction to this bygone realm, describing its history and culture and chronicling its rise and fall. Like much about the Incas, their origins are open to debate. Lane—with this subject and many others—sorts through competing theories, showing how recent scholarship is reshaping traditional ideas and providing a more persuasive explanation for the limited archaeological evidence. . . . The Inca is a volume in the Lost Civilizations series, which prompts Lane to wonder: ‘How lost are the Incas?’ He reports that, five hundred years after the Incas’ conquest and marginalization, their descendants retain a vital culture, experiencing a ‘steadily growing pride and revindication’ of their indigenous past, including their language and religion. The Inca empire may have gone the way of all empires, but, like the sapa Inca, who lived on after death, its spirit is very much alive." A solicitor offered a handshake to a colleague at his home before stabbing him in the chest with a six-inch kitchen knife, a court has heard. Kevin Anthony Lane, of Dinas Baglan Road in Baglan, Neath Port Tabot, was the boss of his own law firm in the area and had been a solicitor for more than 35 years. It is often said the wheels of justice turn slowly, but in some cases, they hardly seem to turn at all. The details get murkier and more confusing with every disclosure, but Lane's predicament is all too familiar to any prisoner attempting to challenge a conviction.

Document by secret document, prised from the police in a campaign that has involved writing 10,000 letters, he has pieced together the jigsaw he thinks shows he was framed – and he believes he can show by whom. He knows there are people who want him to shut up, to move on, but he won’t. “I might be rebuilding my life, but that doesn’t mean I have forgotten. It doesn’t mean I will let it go. I won’t stop. The people who did this to me have to know that: I won’t stop. Not until I have cleared my name.” Unity Movement– New Nation) of Ecuador uses the flag as its emblem, where the ‘Pachakutik’ of the title alludes to the ninth ruling Inca, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1418–1472), of the traditional Cuzco dynastic lineage. Yet the wiphala seems to be a relatively modern invention, like the Scottish use of tartan, dating in this case most likely to the mid-twentieth century.

Within hours of the shooting the names of two men, Roger Vincent and David Smith, were being spoken of as those responsible. I met Kenny when I was first on remand at Belmarsh. He’s a good man and he was good to me. You don’t forget things like that. He’s one of the last of the old-school criminals. It may sound strange to say, but there’s an honour in the way they behave, a code. You don’t get that now. Crime is changing, and the prisons are changing, too. Now, the gangs that exist outside prison are re-forming in jail, and they bring their violence with them. The Yardie gangs, the terrorists. Prison is a more dangerous and volatile place than it was when I first went in. I know prisoners who converted to Islam to get the protection of the Muslim gangs.” When the TV presenter Jill Dando was shot on the doorstep of her home in Fulham in April 1999, Lane's name cropped up again. At the time, detectives wanted advice from expert hitmen. Newspapers said they turned to Lane to ask whether Dando's murderer was the work of a professional. In the early days of the investigation Vincent and his friend David Smith were named as Magill's murderers in 20 separate tip-offs. They were both questioned, and Vincent was charged alongside Lane. Lane says there is another story - his story - and it has only been half told. "Just hear me out," he says. "Then make up your own mind."

He was released in 2015 but returned to jail last year after his arrest on a common assault charge unconnected to the case. A parole hearing is due in March. The case against Lane, who was arrested three months after the murder, was based on one piece of forensic evidence found in the car, and several coincidences. Most forces failed to respond to Sky News' freedom of information requests or refused to provide the information, saying it was not easily retrievable. From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. Greater Manchester Police said 445 threat-to-life warnings were issued in 2021, up from 411 in 2020, 319 in 2019, and 251 in 2018. They included 193 warnings given to under-18s.