Road rage killer loses appeal bid
KILLER Kenneth Noye lost his appeal yesterday against conviction for a road rage knife murder.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge threw out Noye’s claim that the stabbing of the unarmed man to death in a fight was “self defence”.
Noye, 63, killed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in front of his teenage fiancee on an M25 slip road in Swanley, Kent, in 1996 after a minor traffic incident.
The killer was being beaten up by the younger man but went back to his car to get the knife and stabbed Cameron to death.
He fled to Spain after the killing but was extradited in 1998 and jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2000.
Lord Judge said: “To open the knife, and then return to the fight and ‘punch’ Mr Cameron with the open knife held in his fist was a wholly disproportionate response.”
Noye’s lawyer’s claimed the murder conviction should be quashed partly over doubts about the evidence of pathologist Dr Michael Heath.
To open the knife, and then return to the fight and ‘punch’ Mr Cameron with the open knife held in his fist was a wholly disproportionate response
Noye was cleared of the knife murder of Detective Constable John Fordham in 1985.
