Gangster Kenneth Noye, who killed a man in a road rage attack in north Kent, could be moved to an open prison following a recommendation by the Parole Board.

The 70-year-old was locked up in 2000 for stabbing 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in 1996 at the M25 Swanley Interchange.

He was given a life sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years.

The Parole Board previously recommended he be transferred back in 2015 but the suggestion was rejected by the then justice secretary Michael Gove.

Noye launched a high court battle to be moved in January this year and the Parole Board has once again recommended that it go ahead.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman has said: “The independent Parole Board has made its recommendation.

“We will carefully consider this and make a decision in due course.”

Noye, from Bexleyheath, was locked up for killing Mr Cameron, 21, in front of his fiancée Danielle Cable, then 17, after the couple got into an argument with him.

A manhunt was launched for Noye, who fled to Spain. He was extradited in 1999 and handed a life sentence at the Old Bailey in April 2000.

Career criminal Noye has a history of violence, having stabbed undercover police officer John Fordham to death in the grounds of his home in West Kingsdown in 1985.

He was cleared of murder when he claimed the 11 wounds he inflicted were in self-defence.

In 1983, Noye was involved with the prolific Brink’s-Mat bullion robbery, in which armed men posing as security guards entered the Brinks-Mat security vault at Heathrow Airport.

The six-man gang doused a guard with petrol, threatened to set him alight unless he opened a vault, and escaped with £26 million in gold bullion and diamonds.

Eleven gold bars were found and Noye was jailed for 14 years for handling stolen goods, serving eight from 1986 until 1994.

Most of the gold is still missing.