Kenny Noye
| Kenneth Noye | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kenneth James Noye 24 May 1947 (age 70) Bexleyheath, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Criminal |
| Spouse(s) | Brenda Tremain |
| Children | 2 |
Kenneth James Noye (born 24 May 1947) is an English criminal serving a life sentence for murdering Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident while on licence from prison in 1996. Following an acquittal in 1985 for the murder of a police officer, Noye had been convicted in 1986 of handling stolen goods from the Brinks Mat robbery, serving eight years in prison of a 14 year sentence.
Noye was born in Bexleyheath, Kent, where his father ran a post office and his mother a dog racing track. His dishonesty began at a young age. At five, his mother caught him taking money from the till in a branch of Woolworths while she had been talking to a shop assistant. A bully while a pupil at Bexleyheath Boys' Secondary Modern School, he ran a protection racket with his fellow pupils. He left school at 15. For selling stolen bicycles after he had altered their appearance, and other crimes, he spent a year in a borstal. At this point he met a barrister's legal secretary who would later become his wife.
A police informer for many years, Noye had begun a connection with corrupt officers by the time he was arrested for receiving stolen goods in 1977. He became a Freemason in January 1980, becoming a member of the Hammersmith Lodge in London after being proposed for admission by two police officers, giving his occupation as "Builder". He held no offices in the Lodge. Several sources cite that he became the Master of the Lodge but this is untrue.
The membership of the Lodge contained a sizeable proportion of police according to an April 2000 article in The Independent. Noye's membership ceased in 1987 because he had failed to pay his subscriptions for two years in succession. He was subsequently expelled from the Freemasons when it was discovered that he had a criminal record, according to a letter from the Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of England, published by The Independent in December 1996.
One of his police contacts persuaded a customs official not to target Noye, while his tip-offs to the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad were reportedly a means to prevent competition from rival criminals. Meanwhile, he had built up a legitimate haulage business to use as cover. Having initially been refused planning permission for a mansion on a plot of land he owned, he was able to gain consent in a subsequent application shortly after his bungalow on the site was destroyed in a fire caused by an electrical fault.
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