The father of a man murdered by gangster Kenneth Noye asked for his ashes to be interred with his son's before taking his own life. Kenneth Cameron was heartbroken when Noye stabbed Stephen, 21, to death on an M25 sliproad in 1996.
Then in 2016, Mr Cameron’s wife Toni, 73, died tragically after catching her arm on a bush in the garden and contracting a superbug. When his dog passed away this year, Mr Cameron took an overdose at his retirement home and died aged 75.
As reported by the Mirror, it has now emerged Mr Cameron wished to be reunited with his son and wife at their final resting place. 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.”
A coroner said Mr Cameron had struggled with depression since the death of retired nurse Toni. He was also haunted by the release of Kenneth Noye in 2019, 19 years into a life sentence for killing Stephen in the road rage attack in Kent.
Noye, now 75, went on the run after the murder and was arrested in Spain two years later when Stephen’s fiancee, Danielle Cable, helped identify him. Danielle, 17 at the time of the murder, is still under witness protection.
When he killed Stephen, Noye, who got 14 years for handling gold from the Brink’s-Mat robbery, was out on licence. When he was released, he 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.”
After his wife's ashes were interred with Stephen’s, Mr Cameron had said: “They were so close in life that it seemed right to put them together in death.” When he suffered a heart attack in 2017, he had said he was “upset that he had survived”.
Recording a verdict of suicide in June, 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."
Mr Cameron, who had suffered a “cardiac shock”, had been diagnosed with heart disease, asthma and prostate cancer, the inquest heard. He left his £119,591 estate to his brother, Gary Cameron.
