Kenneth Noye

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Kenneth Noye (born 24 May 1947) is an English criminal who was convicted of the 1996 road rage murder of Stephen Cameron.

Noye was involved in laundering the proceeds of the Brinks Mat robbery in 1983. While he was being investigated for his part in the robbery, he stabbed to death a police officer who was observing Noye from the grounds of his home. Noye was acquitted of murder on the grounds of self defence, but was sentenced to 14 years in prison in 1986 for handling stolen gold. He was released from prison in 1994, having served 8 years of his sentence.

Two years later, in 1996, Noye was involved in a fight with 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron after a road rage incident on the M25 motorway. Having been kicked to the ground by Cameron, Noye stabbed and killed him with a flick knife. Noye immediately fled the country, sparking a massive police hunt. In 1998 he was tracked down in Spain, and Cameron's 17-year old girlfriend Danielle Cable, who had witnessed the killing, was secretly flown out to positively identify him. Despite the obvious risks involved, she opted to testify against Noye, who at his trial in 2000 again pleaded self defence. This time found guilty, he was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Cable was given a new identity under the witness protection programme, having been praised by police for her courage in giving evidence in the presence of Noye and his associates. (Another eye witness, Alan Decabral, refused police protection and was shot dead in his car in a gangland-style killing in Ashford, Kent murdered on October 5, 2000. However, reports suggested that his death was due to his extra-marital affairs, rather than his testimony against Noye ^[1]).

Noye is said to have been a Freemason^[2]