Road-rage killer Kenneth Noye could be released this week after nearly 20 years in prison.

Noye, 71, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2000 after knifing 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death on a motorway slip-road near Swanley four years earlier.

Last year the notorious gangster was moved to open prison HMP Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey, and is now expected to be the subject of a parole review this week.

A statement from the Parole Board confirmed: “An oral hearing has been listed for the parole review of Kenneth Noye and is scheduled to take place this month (May 2019)."

“A panel of the Parole Board will consider a range of evidence before making its decision. This will be done with great care and with public safety the number one priority."

Noye, who had stabbed an undercover policeman to death in the grounds of his mansion 11 years earlier, killed Mr Cameron following a trivial disagreement.

He cut in front of a van driven by Mr Cameron's fiancée and when the electrician shook his head, Noye stormed over and punched him before returning and stabbing him in the heart.

In 1985 he stabbed undercover officer John Fordham 10 times but was cleared by a jury on the grounds of self-defence.

A year later he got 14 years for handling some of the £26 million Brink’s-Mat robbery gold.

Following Mr Cameron's murder he fled to Spain, eventually being extradited in 1998.