After being caught speeding, road rage murderer Kenny Noye received advice on the value of maintaining composure while driving.
The notorious double murderer’s most recent run-in with the cops occurred when his Volkswagen Tiguan was caught travelling at 47 mph in a 40 mph zone on the A225 in Otford, Kent.
Noye, 75, who served 25 years in prison for killing Stephen Cameron on the M25, was offered the option of getting three points added to his driving record or enrolling in a speed awareness course.
The former criminal decided to enrol in the course where he would learn about the risks of road rage.
In June, Noye of Sevenoaks, Kent, who had previously fatally stabbed an undercover police officer, finished the 45-minute online course.
On February 25, he was travelling to see his good friend Michelle Budd, a horse trainer who is about 30 years his junior, when he was pulled over for speeding.
Noye served a life sentence for stabbing driver Mr. Cameron, 21, in a fit of rage on a slip road on the M25 in May 1996. He was paroled out of prison three years ago.
One of his parole requirements includes a warning not to break the law or associate with those who had a criminal past.
He was given a ticket for exceeding the 40 mph speed limit and given advice on how to curb his tendency toward irrational driving in the future, according to a police source.
Noye was informed that since he would be expected to adhere to speed limits for road safety, other cars might flash him, honk at him, and irately expect him to yield.
Take slow, deep breaths, and remain composed, was the counsel. Ironically, he was given a refresher instruction on maintaining composure behind the wheel.
MailOnline learned in October of last year that Noye had become good friends with divorcee Mrs. Budd, 48, a self-described “hippy chick” who offers horse hugging therapy to kids.
According to sources, the career criminal met the glitzy grandma with three children at a wayside hamburger stand close to her Kent home.
Later, Noye was observed going to her house, seeing the countryside with her, and enjoying intimate outings to neighbourhood pubs.
According to MailOnline, he even showed up at her stables, which are close to Dartford and where she introduces her horses to school groups of young children, sometimes assisting them with anxiety or other emotional issues.
Many of Mrs. Budd’s horse-loving friends were surprised by the unlikely pair’s growing bond because they were worried about Noye’s criminal past.
When the career criminal first met her 18-year-old son, he allegedly identified himself simply as “Ken.”
In 1985, Noye discovered DC John Fordham hidden in the grounds of his 20-acre estate in West Kingsdown, Kent, and stabbed him ten times.
When Noye was suspected of handling gold bullion taken in the £26 million Brink’s-Mat raid at Heathrow in 1983, the officer was keeping a close eye on him.
Charged with DC Fordham’s murder were Noye and Brian Reader, who later rose to renown as the brains behind the Hatton Garden jewellery robbery in 2015.
However, an Old Bailey jury found the two not guilty when Noye asserted that he had acted in self-defence because he had feared being attacked.
In 1986, Noye was found guilty of handling stolen gold after 11 bullion bars were found in his house.
He received a 14-year sentence with an eight-year prison term, a £500,000 fine, and an additional £200,000 in costs.
After being freed from prison, Noye was on parole when he lost his composure and stabbed Stephen Cameron during a roadside altercation.
He escaped the country in a private plane given by his late friend John Palmer from the Brink’s-Mat team, and he ultimately made his way to southern Spain, where he was apprehended in August 1998.
Noye was apprehended after Stephen’s girlfriend Danielle Cable, who saw the murder, was brought covertly to the scene by British police and recognized him there. She is still in a witness protection program.
In May 1999, he was returned to Britain by extradition, and the following year, Danielle bravely testified against him in the Old Bailey.
Noye was sentenced to life in prison for murder and required to serve at least 16 years in prison, however he was released from jail in June 2019.
The ex-con and his wife Brenda Tremain, with whom he shares two grown kids named Kevin and Brett, are no longer married.
In October 2020, it was announced that he was reuniting with Karen Bricker-Jones, a businesswoman he had first dated 40 years earlier before going to prison.
Following his release from prison, he was rumoured to be splitting his time between Karen, a mother of three tasteful’s four-bedroom mock Tudor home in Surrey and his bachelor pad in Kent.
While staying at her house, neighbours observed him putting the trash out and carrying her grocery shopping.
The 59-year-old, privately educated Karen, was reported to have paid Noye frequent visits while he was serving his murder term.
Mrs. Budd, a grandmother of two, identifies as a certified physical education teacher and equine learning coach in internet posts.
The Kent Equine Facilitated Learning Centre, a nonprofit organization that encourages “relaxation via horse care,” is owned and founded by her.
Children are believed to benefit from Mrs. Budd’s therapy sessions by “connecting with nature, managing emotions, and natural crafts.”
There are numerous images of young people patting and petting horses on the website for her stables.
According to her biography, she provides “help for persons looking for solutions support with relationships, work, progress, acceptance, forgiveness, trauma addicts and autistic children.”
‘She is all about peace and love and calls herself a ‘Hippy Chick,’ a friend of Mrs. Budd told MailOnline in October.
She does have a kind and sympathetic attitude. It all comes down to being kind and exploring your inner self. However, Noye is vicious, evil, and has killed two people.
It is difficult for us to envision them together as friends. When it comes to each person’s personality, they are like chalk and cheese.
She is a compassionate individual who shows concern for the kids she assists.
When questioned by MailOnline last year, Mrs. Budd said she wasn’t dating Noye.
She said, “I don’t know what you are talking about mate,” when first approached.
She then admitted, “I do know him. He’s a buddy of the family. I have no comment to offer, mate, she added. I didn’t know that.
I must admit that I am a little taken aback.
She said, “I have no comment to make,” when asked how a woman who identified herself as a hippy felt about the fact that he had killed two people.