Murder on the M25: Who Killed Stephen Cameron? - what happened during the incident, and where is killer Kenneth Noye now?
Kenneth Noye lives a life of notoriety after a lifetime of crimes that are often subjects of TV shows and documentaries
True crime fans are sure to know the name Kenneth Noye - a man who has reached a status of infamy after being involved in high profile crimes that have been dramatised and had several documentaries made about them.
Prime Video's latest crime documentary, Murder on the M25: Who Killed Stephen Cameron? brings Noye's name back to the forefront again as it delves into the stabbing of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron, who was murdered in a road rage incident in 1996.
As the police investigation gathered pace, it appears the young man was killed by a notorious criminal who then went on the run - Kenneth Noye.
Here is what happened to Stephen Cameron, and what Kenneth Noye has done during his criminal career - including where he is now.
What happened to Stephen Cameron?
In In May 1996, Stephen Cameron had been out shopping for bagels with his 17-year-old girlfriend, Danielle Cable. Danielle was driving Stephen's van, and the couple became embroiled in a road rage incident with Kenneth Noye.
Both stopped their vehicles, and the men got into a fight on the side of the road, at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent. Kenneth Noye went to his car and got a knife from the glove compartment, and stabbed Stephen twice before driving away.
Noye had stabbed Stephen in the heart, and although he was rushed to hospital from the scene of the crime, he died 50 minutes after arriving there.
The following day Noye went on the run, first being flown by private helicopter to northern France, before taking a train to Paris and then a private jet to Madrid. He made his way from there to the Canary Islands and north Africa, before eventually hiding out in southern Spain.
However, this was yet another crime to add to a list Noye had been involved in.
Kenneth Noye was first sent to a youth detention centre in Kent at the age of 15, for selling stolen car parts. By the time he married, he was a career criminal who worked shifting stolen goods.
Noye was known to socialise at the Hilltop hotel hear where he lived, with other known criminals from the area. In 1983, he was involved in what would come to be known as one of the crimes of the century - the Brink's-Mat robbery.
The robbery was dramatised in a BBC six-part series The Gold, released in 2023. Noye was played by Slow Horses star Jack Lowden.
The series shows how, on November 26, 1983, six men broke into the Brink’s-Mat warehouse at Heathrow. They expected to find £3 million in cash, but were instead met with £26 million in gold bars and jewels.
Noye was brought on board to launder the gold so it couldn’t be traced to the robbers. Working with a man named John Palmer, they'd melt the gold down to mix with copper, to be sold on.
The robbers were quickly tracked, and when Noye became a suspect, he was placed under surveillance. During this time, he came across Detective Constable John Fordham carrying out some work at his home as part of the operation to track him.
He fatally stabbed Fordham on finding him at his property, but was later acquitted of murder after insisting he'd acted in self-defence.
However, he couldn't escape his involvement in laundering the gold being found out, and when 11 gold bars were found at his home, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was released 8 years later in 1994, and was still on licence when he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996.
Two years after going on the run, he was tracked down to his hiding place in Spain, and extradited to face trial for the stabbing. He was sentenced to life for killing Stephen in 2000.
Where is Kenneth Noye now?
Kenneth Noye was released from prison in 2019, and thought to be living in Sevenoaks, Kent.
Nick Biddiss, the former detective superintendent responsible for putting him in prison, is unhappy with the level of notoriety Noye has found through documentaries and dramas like The Gold, that give him almost "celebrity" status.
In 2025, Biddiss responded to reports that Noye was being treated like a hero in and around Sevenoaks, telling the BBC, "I don't feel comfortable with it, especially when you think this man is a violent criminal."
He added, "Why is Kenny Noye being lionised by people in West Kingsdown and Sevenoaks, shaking his hand, going around in effect being a mini celebrity? It's not right."
The publication reports that The Ministry of Justice previously said Noye, now 79, will remain on licence for the rest of his life and could return to prison if he doesn't comply with his conditions.
Murder on the M25: Who Killed Stephen Cameron? is available on Prime Video from July 11.
