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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-33050737
Interesting Reading;
A convicted murderer recently released from prison has said he is determined to "fight" for justice, believing his case was flawed by a crooked detective.
Kevin Lane was found guilty of shooting dead Robert Magill with a shotgun in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, in 1994.
His argument of an "unsafe" conviction by Det Insp Christopher Spackman is being heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday and Thursday.
If his appeal is successful, he could be in line for compensation up to £1m.
Det Insp Spackman was jailed at the Old Bailey for four years for plotting to steal £160,000 from Hertfordshire Police.
In the Magill case, Spackman was in charge of the disclosure of evidence to the prosecution and defence and of handling the exhibits.
As a result of his conviction, two other defendants in other cases overseen by Spackman have been freed on appeal.
The BBC has been told the case being put forward on Wednesday is that Lane's conviction for murder was "manifestly unsafe" due to the extent of Spackman's "reckless dishonesty".
"I believe Hertfordshire Police have tried to suppress my conviction as a result of what they have done in terms of 'fitting me up'.
"It's easy to take people off the street and the general public will not believe that until it happens to someone like myself - take you off the street and fit a number of circumstantial facts around you."
Hertfordshire Police declined to comment before the appeal hearing.
The BBC has been unable to make contact with Christopher Spackman, who is believed to be living under a new identity.
Interesting Reading;
A convicted murderer recently released from prison has said he is determined to "fight" for justice, believing his case was flawed by a crooked detective.
Kevin Lane was found guilty of shooting dead Robert Magill with a shotgun in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, in 1994.
His argument of an "unsafe" conviction by Det Insp Christopher Spackman is being heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday and Thursday.
If his appeal is successful, he could be in line for compensation up to £1m.
Det Insp Spackman was jailed at the Old Bailey for four years for plotting to steal £160,000 from Hertfordshire Police.
In the Magill case, Spackman was in charge of the disclosure of evidence to the prosecution and defence and of handling the exhibits.
As a result of his conviction, two other defendants in other cases overseen by Spackman have been freed on appeal.
The BBC has been told the case being put forward on Wednesday is that Lane's conviction for murder was "manifestly unsafe" due to the extent of Spackman's "reckless dishonesty".
"I believe Hertfordshire Police have tried to suppress my conviction as a result of what they have done in terms of 'fitting me up'.
"It's easy to take people off the street and the general public will not believe that until it happens to someone like myself - take you off the street and fit a number of circumstantial facts around you."
Hertfordshire Police declined to comment before the appeal hearing.
The BBC has been unable to make contact with Christopher Spackman, who is believed to be living under a new identity.
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Kerching.
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sidthekid
you'd like to release a convicted murderer because? |
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Well, for one...if the evidence was fixed it should t least be a retrial. And for two...if he DIDN'T do it, then the guilty party is still free.
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Poly if you read the post or copy and pasted the link and read the Full story,
You would know this man was "recently released from prison". |
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you get compo if you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that you didn't do it.
so say if you get convicted on murder through dna evidence which turns out later not to be yours...according to the law your not due compo. what a great country we live in. |
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my mistake, I'll rephrase it.
you'd like a convicted murderer to have his case quashed and to be paid a million pounds? note that in your selected quote you omit the fact that spackman was convicted 9 years after this case. also omitted in the article are the full details of either case the possibility exists that lane is innocent, just as the possiblility of his guilt exists. nothing you present makes a material case eitherway, other than one individual involved was 9 years later convicted of a crime, this would be balanced by the considered examination of a jury and the unmentioned weight of evidence. |
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Car dealer Mr Magill was walking his dog in the morning of 13 October 1994 when two contract killers ran out of the woods and shot him five times on Valley Road.
They made off in a BMW that was later found. "Officers arrested two men for the killing - Roger Vincent and David Smith" Smith was released and the judge directed Vincent's acquittal before the trial began. Nine years later, in 2003, Vincent and Smith were jailed for life for a Hitman Killing outside a Hertfordshire gym. It had many similarities to the Magill shooting, from the time of the murder to another BMW being used as a getaway car. In the same year, Det Insp Spackman was jailed at the Old Bailey for four years. In the Magill case, Detective Spackman was in charge of the disclosure of evidence to the prosecution and defence and of handling the exhibits. It alleges Detective Spackman, Vincent and Smith knew one another and had "off the record" meetings before Lane's trial. Kevin Lane's conviction for Murder was "manifestly unsafe" due to the extent of Detective Spackman's "reckless dishonesty". Hence the Appeal Poly. |
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was kevin lane the killer or did he pay 2 hitmen??
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just read about it.........to be fair i dont think he did it
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