14-05-2012, 01:46 PM
Quote: Kenneth Noye: road rage killer moved to 'holiday camp' jailhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/c...-jail.html
The road rage killer Kenneth Noye has been secretly moved to a "holiday camp" prison, it has been reported.
Noye, 64, was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron, whom he stabbed to death during a fight on the M25 four years earlier.
The multimillionaire gangland killer, who fled to Spain after the stabbing but was extradited in 1998, denied murder, instead claiming it was self defence, a claim rejected by the Old Bailey jury.
Just two years earlier he had been released from jail after serving eight years of a 14-year sentence for his part in the £26 million Brink's-Mat bullion robbery in 1983.
On Friday it emerged he has been secretly transferred from the high-security HMP Whitemoor to Category B Lowdham Grange, near Nottingham amid tight security.
Inmates suggested the facility is similar to a "holiday camp", claiming the prisoner will have a cell to himself, complete with a TV, PlayStation console, fridge and an en suite shower.
Sources suggested the move will prepare him for his eventual release, which could be in as little as four years' time.
While it was claimed he has been a "model prisoner" over the past five years, Mr Cameron's family reacted with horror to the news. "He is still a very dangerous man,"
his father Ken Cameron, 64, told the Daily Mirror from his home in Norfolk.
"They are moving him to a softer prison and didn't even let us know. It's outrageous.
"He's got around three-and-a-half years to go in prison. Surely this is too early to de-categorise him to Category B."
He added: "With his money and his contacts, it must make it easier for him to attempt to escape."
Noye is said to have planned an escape during his time at high security HMP Whitemoor.
Six years ago, he was moved to another jail after officers were said to have discovered Noye had arranged to have a mobile phone which he planned to coordinate his breakout with smuggled into the unit in a box of Weetabix.
He was transferred under armed guard to the maximum secure Full Sutton prison in York before later being moved back to Whitemoor.
Noye was involved in laundering the proceeds of the Brink's-Mat robbery in the 1980s. While under investigation in 1985 he stabbed to death an undercover detective, John Fordham.
Noye was cleared of murder on the grounds that he was acting in self defence. He was, however, convicted of handling stolen gold and sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was released in 1994. Mr Cameron was murdered in 1996.
Noye's was convicted in 2000. Appeals in 2001 and 2004 failed. But last year his case was referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Earlier this year he lost his bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his murder conviction.
A spokesman for the Prison Service said: "We do not comment on the location of individual prisoners."