Noye should leave jail in a wooden box

KILLER MOVES TO OPEN PRISON NEAR HIS HOME

Playstation games console in their cells. The 464-capacity prison, on the site of an ex- RAF station, has extensive sport activities including badminton, basketball, circuit training, football, mountain biking, soft tennis, volleyball and weight training.

Inmates can also grow their own vegetables, including carrots, leeks, broccoli and lettuces, in the prison’s on-site allotments.

And they can also take part in a range of full and part- time education courses, including barista training, business venture, construction, customer service, digital media, hospitality and vehicle maintenance.

Previous Standford Hill inmates include shamed MPs Jonathan Aitken and Jim Devine.

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Governors were embarrassed in September 2016 when burglars BROKE IN to the jail two nights in a row and stole equipment worth thousands, including a tractor, a pick- up truck, power tools and a people carrier.

They also faced criticism in 2014 when Michael Wheatley, 58, walked out and carried out an £18,000 robbery at a building society. Noye is considered one of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. In 1985 he stabbed undercover police officer John Fordham 10 times in the grounds of his mansion. A jury cleared Noye of murder and manslaughter on the basis of self-defence. A year later he got 14 years for handling some of the £26million Brink’s-Mat robbery gold. After murdering Stephen in 1996 he fled to France by helicopter and then to Spain by private jet, allegedly using proceeds from the 1983 Brink’s-Mat heist.

He lived a life of luxury on the Costa del Sol, where he owned a house reportedly worth £500,000 and kept his mistress in a £150,000 apartment.

Noye, who repaid £3million to the authorities in 1994 but is still believed to have millions of pounds waiting for him when he leaves jail, was finally extradited i n 1998 and convicted of Stephen’s murder in 2000.

He was initially held in highsecurity HMP Whitemoor, then category B Lowdham Grange, and category C HMP Wayland, before the Parole Board first recommended he be moved to an open jail in 2015.

Justice Secretary Michael Gove blocked the move but was rebuffed by the High Court.

It is understood Noye has completed an anger management course in jail.

But court documents show he is still suspected of “close links to the world of serious organised crime”.

A Prison Service spokesman said yesterday: “We do not comment on individuals.”