The father of the man murdered by Kenneth Noye in a road rage attack made a last wish to have his ashes interred with his son’s.
Kenneth Cameron was heartbroken when Noye stabbed Stephen, 21, to death on an M25 sliproad in 1996.
In 2016, Mr Cameron’s wife Toni, 73, died, and when his dog passed away this year he took a fatal overdose at his retirement home, aged 75. Now it has emerged Mr Cameron is 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.”
Mr Cameron left his £119,591 estate to his brother, Gary Cameron. A coroner said Mr Cameron had struggled with depression since the death of retired nurse Toni.
He was also haunted by the release of Noye in 2019, 19 years into a life sentence for murdering Stephen in Kent.
In 2020, after Noye was seen at the spot where he stabbed Stephen, Mr Cameron said: “It’s like Noye’s walking on Stephen’s grave. I feel sickened.”
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. 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”.
Toni had died after catching her arm on a bush in the garden and contracting a superbug.
After her ashes were interred with Stephen’s, Mr Cameron said: “They were so close in life that it seemed right to put them together in death.”
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.
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