FITTED UP AND FIGHTING BACK

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Lane walked out of Blantyre House in Kent on a sunny Friday in January last year. He had mixed feelings as he was driven away from the category D jail. There was relief that his ordeal had come to an end, but also a sense of guilt for the friends he was leaving behind. Underlying it all, there was an anger that won’t go away. Lane remembers once being on the door of a pub called the Firefly in Hayes, Middlesex. There had been trouble earlier in the day and the landlord wanted emergency cover. As Lane stood outside, a car slowed down and a man called out: "Do you want some of this?" It is understood the MoJ has concerns that "threat to life" operations take up a substantial amount of police time and deprive forces of the ability to take their own decisions about where to allocate resources. Nobody from the Dando team came to see me," he says. "It was rubbish, like most of the stuff that has been in the papers. Being wrongly convicted of one was bad enough. Then, overnight, I became a multiple murderer."

This edition draws on the rich findings of various scientific disciplines – such as economics, behavioural sciences, and management theory – for fundamental concepts and tools that can be applied to marketing. The authors apply strategic thinking to the complete spectrum of marketing: products, services, persons, places, information, ideas and causes; consumer and business markets; profit and non-profit organizations; domestic and foreign companies; start-ups, small and large firms; manufacturing and intermediary businesses, and low- and high-tech industries. These concepts and frameworks will help students as well as managers to design and execute marketing strategies. Though the CCRC says it does not believe this has compromised its inquiries into Lane's case, Lane himself is not convinced it has the capacity for an investigation as complex, and potentially sensitive, as his. The latest edition is enriched with case studies and examples from India. Caselets of leading and emerging brands and organizations include Asian Paints, Biocon, Eureka Forbes, HDFC Bank, Titan, iDFresh, Paperboat, FabIndia, Tanishq, Allen Solly, Bajaj Auto, Infosys, TCS, SBI Mutual Funds, Tata Steel, Wipro, Fevicol, Kaya Clinic, Tata Ace, Narayana Health, Taj Hotels, Spar, Max, Lifestyle, Aravind Eye Care System, Maruti Suzuki, Naandi Foundation, SBI Yono, Tata Trusts, among others. Application of marketing concepts in new-age and digital businesses like Flipkart, Inmobi, Lenskart, Plaeto, Treebo, Udaan, PayTM and BigBasket make the book very contemporary. 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." Lane has criticisms of the CCRC, but the body set up to look at cases like his has it own problems, which go far beyond its investigation into any individual. During the time Lane has been in jail, since early 1995, the prison population has increased by about 75% to 86,000. Meanwhile, the budget for the CCRC has been cut.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. In return for this evidence, Vincent wanted the charges against him dropped. That did not happen, but it was unnecessary in any case. During the trial, the case against Vincent was abandoned, with the prosecution admitting his alibi had not been properly investigated. Lane insists they jumped to the wrong conclusion. He says he couldn't return to the UK using his real passport because he was in trouble with the Spanish police over a brawl in a restaurant called The Steak House. However, again he didn't tell detectives about the fight. 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.” Last year credence was lent to Lane's claim that he was set up when his lawyer was sent bundles of documents that appeared to be confidential police files. Within them were copies of apparently secret police memos. Merchant says the files, if genuine, show Lane was the victim of a deliberate and blatant plot.

Judges had hoped the CCRC would have finished its work this January, and when that deadline was missed, by the end of April. The CCRC is still looking at the files. A spokesman said its investigation would be completed "sooner rather than later but it is not possible to put an exact date on it".Even at its more frivolously commercial or cultural level, the Inca are still omnipresent. Peru’s national soft drink is known as Inca Cola, an incredibly sweet, fluorescent yellow concoction of lemon verbena or hierba luisa ( Aloysia citrodora) and a lot of fizz. Scotland aside (Irn-Bru), Peru is the only country where Coca-Cola has not become the best-selling soft drink in the land. Rural communities and revivalist movements have ensured that the indigenous past of their countries and the culture of the Inca resonate across contemporary South American culture, from the continued existence of indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to rituals celebrating specific moments within the Inca religious calendar – for instance the Inti Raymi (the Inca festival of the Sun) – to a generalized veneration of the Pachamama (Mother Earth) across the Andean region. Archaeology in the Andean countries is a living science which has to do not only with the past, but also with the present and with the future.—Philip A. Means, Ancient Civilizations of the Andes

Lane has always proclaimed his innocence despite the fact that this inevitably slows down the possibility of release as a prisoner is deemed not to have come to terms with his offence. His case was initially covered in the Guardian in 2001 and was later the subject of a short film as part of the Guardian’s Justice on Trial series.In this book, then, we explore the development of Inca culture, society and economy within the ecological and geographical context of South America, and how by the fifteenth century their empire rose to dominate western South America. We focus on their myths, history and beliefs, and how, even after collapse, their memory inspired generations from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century. Finally, we reflect on their continued influence: an influence that still matters for many across the Andean region. 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. He has told the Guardian that there are people inside jail who are trying to shut him up – permanently. But he won't be deterred.

From their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca. Robert Magill was murdered near his home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, on 13 October 1994, as he was walking his dog, Oscar. In 1996, Kevin Lane was convicted of shooting him in what was seen as a contract killing, and for 16 years he has been protesting his innocence. Most forces failed to respond to Sky News' freedom of information requests or refused to provide the information, saying it was not easily retrievable. 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. In 2005, Vincent was convicted of another shooting described in court as a “thoroughly planned, ruthless and brutally executed assassination”. Smith was convicted alongside him as his getaway driver. That was similar, then, in many ways to the murder of Magill. Could Vincent have been responsible for both? Armed with this new information, Lane urged the court of appeal to look at his case again. It took him 10 years to get a hearing in court.

What has Kevin Lane said?

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.”