M25 murderer Kenneth Noye
(Picture: PA)The family of road rage killer Kenneth Noye’s victim has criticised the BBC for portraying him as a “loveable rogue” in its new TV drama The Gold.
Noye stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death on an M25 slip road in 1996.
He was later caught and jailed after fleeing to Spain with the aid of underworld contacts.
But Noye, now a 75-year-old grandfather, is free and basking in the fame of being portrayed as a charismatic villain in a new six-part BBC series.
Gary Cameron, the uncle of victim Stephen, hit out at the corporation for depicting Noye as “some sort of Robin Hood character”.
He told MailOnline: “The BBC has made Noye out to be some kind of good guy when he is a cold-blooded murderer.”
He added: “They have made him out to be some sort of Robin Hood character, taking from the rich.
“It’s unbelievable. I watched the first episode and was disgusted when I saw they have portrayed him as a nice guy, some sort of loveable rogue, which is completely wrong. It is not how he was. The man is a villain who is a ruthless double killer.”
Before the killing, Noye was out of jail on licence after serving time for handling gold from the £26million Brink’s-Mat robbery in 1983.
Noye also stabbed Detective Constable John Fordham to death in 1985 as officers tried to prove he helped fence the gold - but was acquitted on grounds of self-defence.
The six-part BBC drama on the Brink’s-Mat gold robbery and its aftermath was released this month. Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper and Charlotte Spencer star in the series, which follows the chain of violence spawned by the £26million raid.
