Kenneth Noye: M25 road rage killer released from prison

Parole Board concludes he no longer posed a risk to the community

Road rage killer Kenneth Noye has been released from prison after serving almost 20 years for the murder of Stephen Cameron.

The 71-year-old was jailed for life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000 for stabbing the 21 year old to death on an M25 slip road in Kent in 1996.

It is understood he was released from Standford Hill open prison in Kent, after a Parole Board last month concluded he no longer posed a risk to the community.

The Ministry of Justice said it understood his release would be “distressing” for Mr Cameron’s family.

The young electrician was stabbed to death in front of his fiancée Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under witness protection ever since.

Noye went on the run after the killing and was arrested in Spain in 1998.

Born in Bexleyheath, he became involved in crime as a teenager and was convicted of theft and receiving stolen goods, while acting as a police informer.

He was allegedly linked to corrupt officers.

Following the Brink’s-Mat robbery in 1983, when £26m worth of gold bullion, diamonds and cash was stolen from a London trading estate, the notorious killer was involved in laundering proceeds and melting down the gold.

In 1985, Noye stabbed an undercover police officer to death after finding him in his garden in Kent.

Noye claimed at trial that he killed Detective Constable John Fordham in self-defence – a claim he later attempted to use after murdering Mr Cameron.

He was acquitted of the police officer’s murder but found guilty of handling some of the stolen gold and jailed until his release in 1994.

Two years later he murdered Cameron, who was on the way to the shops with his fiancée at the time.

Stephen Cameron, who was murdered by Stephen Noye during a road rage incident on an M25 slipway in Kent in 1996. (PA/family handout)

Noye has been eligible to be considered for release since April 2015.

He will have to adhere to a set of licence conditions or he face being sent back to prison.

These include living at a designated address, good behaviour, and reporting for supervision and other appointments as required.

Noye will have to comply with “other identified limitations” relating to contacts, activities, residency and exclusion zones.

He will also have to continue to address “defined areas of risk”.

In reaching the decision, the panel considered a 439-page dossier of written evidence.

Witnesses who gave oral evidence included Noye himself, his community-based probation officer and a psychologist employed by the Prison Service.

The panel also considered a “victim personal statement” which “set out clearly the impact that Mr Noye’s crime had, and continues to have, on his victim’s family”.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We understand this will be a distressing decision for the family of Stephen Cameron and our thoughts remain with them. Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.”