Daily Mirror

Jailed killer cleared for release

- BY TOM PETTIFOR Crime Editor tom.pettifor@mirror.co.uk @tpettifor

Kenneth Noye THE detective who nailed road-rage murderer Kenneth Noye has said he should never be freed as he was yesterday cleared for release.

Nick Biddiss believes the gangster who also stabbed a police officer to death, has an illicit fortune squirrelle­d away and will probably return to crime.

Noye was yesterday told he can go free having served less than 20 years for murdering 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in a road rage attack near the M25 in Swanley, Kent, in 1996. Mr Biddis, a former detective superinten­dent, said: “I don’t think he should ever come out.

“I suspect he’s access to money you and I could only dream of but it will be untraceabl­e.”

Mr Biddiss was in charge of the Kent Police probe that hunted Noye down in Spain. His victim’s fiancee lives with a new identity, after identifyin­g Noye.

Stephen’s dad Ken, 72, whose wife Toni died in 2016, said: “I’m devastated.” Noye, who is 72 tomorrow, allegedly salted away £5million he and Hatton Garden mastermind Brian Reader raised laundering the proceeds of the

1983 Brink’s-Mat

HIS VICTIM Stephen Cameron heist. Noye repaid £3million to the authoritie­s in 1994. In 1985 he stabbed police officer John Fordham 10 times. He was cleared of murder and manslaught­er, on the grounds of self-defence. The Ministry of Justice said Noye would be released “subject to strict conditions” but acknowledg­ed it “will be distressin­g for the family. of Stephen Cameron”.

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