Kenneth Cameron thought he would have a lifetime of memories with his son.
Instead, Stephen Cameron was stabbed to death in a road rage attack on an M25 slip road when he was just 21.
Career criminal Kenneth Noye initially fled the country but was convicted of the slaying in 2000 after Stephen's brave fiancee Danielle Cable gave evidence against him.
Danielle has been living in witness protection ever since and is only able to see her family twice a year.
Meanwhile, devastated dad Ken Cameron was haunted by the brutal murder - which saw his son stabbed in the heart and the liver - until his final days.
To his horror, Ken once revealed that he was asked if he wanted to meet the killer.
But Mr Cameron and his wife Toni angrily refused the probation service offer.
Ken said: "A few years after Noye was put in jail they wrote to us and asked if we'd be interested, in principle, in meeting Noye in person.
"We were shocked as he'd never shown any remorse and had blamed Stephen for what happened.
"We told them bluntly that he could go to hell.
"I didn't want to give him the chance to gloat and I didn't know what I would do to him. He was evil then and he is evil now."
It is not known if Noye agreed to the meeting.
Ken said wife Toni, who died in 2016, could never have been in the same room as Noye: "Toni was a good woman but wanted to see him rot in hell."
Retired nurse Toni died after catching her arm on a bush in the garden and contracting a superbug, but Ken continued their fight. And in 2017 he railed against a decision to move Noye to an open prison.
In an impassioned open letter, he wrote: "We have never wanted revenge for Stephen's murder – all we've ever wanted was justice.
"Life should mean life. Toni always said the only way she wanted to see him come out of prison was in a wooden box. Our family and Danielle’s family have had to suffer a life sentence while Noye has carried on with his own life.
"He chose his own path that day. Why should we have to worry even more knowing that he is out of prison?"
Former Justice Secretary Michael Gove blocked the killer's bid to move to an open prison in 2013. But in 2017 it was revealed the Parole Board had backed Noye, who was later released in 2019.
When Noye was seen at the spot where he stabbed Stephen in 2020, Mr Cameron said: "It's like Noye's walking on Stephen's grave. I feel sickened."
Ken's battle came to a tragic end when he took his own life last year following the death of Toni and his beloved dog.
Mr Cameron killed himself at his retirement home, aged 75, with a coroner recording a verdict of suicide amid his 'deteriorating mental health'.
Coroner Katrina Hepburn said: "Mr Cameron's mental health had been deteriorating since the death of his wife.
"He had been particularly hit by the death of his dog. When his brother went to see him he was found unconscious."
Mr Cameron, who had suffered a 'cardiac shock', had been diagnosed with heart disease, asthma and prostate cancer, the inquest heard.
After a heart attack in 2017, he had said he was, 'upset that he had survived'.
But before his death, Ken made one final wish, asking to be buried with his son and wife.
In his will, he wrote: "I wish to be cremated and my ashes interred with those of my late wife and late son at St Mary’s Church, Swanley, Kent."
Mr Cameron left his £119,591 estate to his brother, Gary Cameron.
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