Notorious killer makes fresh appeal
A notorious criminal who was previously found not guilty of murdering an undercover police officer in 1985 has been allowed to make a new appeal against his the conviction for a different killing in 1996.
A notorious criminal who was previously found not guilty of murdering an undercover police officer in 1985 has been allowed to make a new appeal against his the conviction for a different killing in 1996.
Kenneth Noye, who stabbed to death Stephen Cameron on the M25 following a road rage incident always maintained that he acted in self-defence after getting into an altercation with Mr Cameron.
The jury found Noye guilty of murder because he had stabbed Mr Cameron twice and it was therefore a plan to kill.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has referred the case for appeal due to uncertainty surrounding the pathologists report whether or not he did in fact stab Mr Cameron twice. The CCRC said that there is a real possibility that the court may quash the conviction as unsafe.
Noye unsuccessfully challenged his sentence earlier this year and his first appeal in 2001 was dismissed when the Lord Chief Justice said there was no justification for Noye to have produced the knife.
Noye originally denied any involvement in the murder of Cameron but later admitted the crime but claimed he had acted in self defence.
Noye fled to Spain following the death of Mr Cameron and was extradited in 1998.
Noyes involvement in shady business deals, organised crime and an underworld of corruption was well known but for many years the police were unable to prove his guilt.
Before his murder conviction, Noye was jailed for 14 years for handling stolen goods from the Brinks Mat robbery in which £26m worth of gold, platinum and diamonds were stolen. It was during the investigation into the robbery that he stabbed to death undercover police officer Detective Constable John Fordham. He was acquitted of the murder on the grounds of self defence.