Kenneth Noye was arrested in Spain two years later and convicted of the crime four years after it.
31 Facts About Kenneth Noye
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Kenneth Noye was on licence from that sentence when he murdered Mr Cameron.
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Kenneth Noye was released on licence from the murder sentence in 2019.
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Kenneth Noye was born in Bexleyheath, Kent where his father ran a post office and his mother a dog racing track.
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Kenneth Noye met a barrister's legal secretary, Brenda Tremain, who later became his wife.
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Kenneth Noye became a Freemason in January 1980, becoming a member of the Hammersmith Lodge in London after being proposed for admission by two police officers, giving his occupation as "Builder".
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Kenneth Noye's membership ceased in 1987 because he had failed to pay his subscriptions for two years in succession.
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Kenneth Noye was expelled from the Freemasons when it was discovered that he had a criminal record, according to the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England,.
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Active as a fence, Kenneth Noye was among those involved in laundering a huge quantity of stolen gold bullion taken during the Brink's-Mat robbery by six armed men on 26 November 1983.
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Kenneth Noye had melted down much of the Brink's-Mat gold he had received, and mixed it with copper coins in an attempt to disguise its origins, although 11 gold bars from the robbery were found hidden at his home.
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On 19 May 1996, while on release from prison on licence, Kenneth Noye was involved in an altercation with 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 motorway near Swanley in Kent during a road rage incident.
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Kenneth Noye immediately fled the country, since revealed to have been assisted by Palmer, who later claimed to have barely known Kenneth Noye, if at all.
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However, Kenneth Noye was not located in Cyprus, and due to Kyrenia's location in the Turkish-occupied northern part of the country, there were no extradition treaties in place which would have allowed Kenneth Noye to be extradited back to Britain.
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Kenneth Noye was arrested the following day, and lost an appeal against his extradition from Spain seven months later.
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Kenneth Noye was finally extradited to Britain in May 1999, nine months after his arrest, and went on trial 10 months later.
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Kenneth Noye claimed not to be a violent man at the trial, and again pleaded self-defence, explaining that he had fled because the police hated him and he feared not receiving a fair trial.
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The judge at Kenneth Noye's trial did not make any recommendation in open court on the tariff for how long Kenneth Noye should serve, but made the then-conventional written report to the Lord Chief Justice and the Home Secretary recommending a tariff of 16 years.
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In 2002 the then-Home Secretary David Blunkett duly set the tariff, before Kenneth Noye could apply for parole at 16 years as recommended.
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On 10 October 2001 and again in 2004, Kenneth Noye appealed unsuccessfully against his conviction.
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On 14 October of that year, Kenneth Noye was granted a fresh appeal against his conviction for Cameron's murder, but it was rejected on 22 March 2011.
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Kenneth Noye was reported to have been moved from the Category A prison, HM Prison Whitemoor, to a Category B prison, at Lowdham Grange, in September 2011.
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Kenneth Noye was formerly at Category C HM Prison Wayland in Griston, Norfolk.
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On 13 February 2015, BBC News reported that Kenneth Noye had been granted a parole hearing.
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Kenneth Noye was refused permission to move to an open prison by Justice Secretary Michael Gove in October 2015 after such a move had been recommended by the parole board.
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Edward Fitzgerald, QC, acting for Kenneth Noye, said during the previous month's hearing that the board had "noted that he had made significant progress in changing his attitudes and tackling his behavioural problems".
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Counsel for the Justice Secretary, Tom Weisselberg, QC, said Gove had doubted Kenneth Noye had reformed, and considered there was the risk he would escape because of his connections to Spain.
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Around March 2018, Kenneth Noye was moved to HM Prison Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey, which is a low security prison with a day release provision for prisoners.
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In May 2019, the parole board announced that Kenneth Noye was "suitable for return to the community" and would be released from prison within about three months.
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On 6 June 2019, then aged 72, Kenneth Noye was released from prison after serving 20 years for the M25 attack.
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The man, Brian Reader, had been charged alongside Kenneth Noye for murdering undercover police surveillance officer John Fordham, in the grounds of Kenneth Noye's home in 1985.
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However, together with Kenneth Noye, he was convicted of conspiracy to handle stolen property and cash from the Brink's-Mat robbery, for which he received a nine-year jail sentence in 1986.