Road rage killer Kenneth Noye has won his High Court challenge against a decision refusing him a move to open prison conditions.

The gangster stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death at the M25 Swanley Interchange in 1996.

He was given a life sentence and ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years.

In 2015 the Parole Board declined to order his release, but recommended that he be transferred to open conditions.

But the board's recommendation was rejected by the then justice secretary Michael Gove.

Today that has been overturned.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “We have noted the court’s findings and will consider.”

Noye, now 69, carried out the killing in front of the victim's fianceé Danielle Cable, then 17, after the couple got into an argument with him.

Mr Cameron was stabbed in the heart and liver as Ms Cable screamed for help.

The killer fled to Spain but was extradited in 1999 and sentenced to life at the Old Bailey in April 2000.

He unsuccessfully appealed against the life sentence twice - in 2013 and 2015 - before launching a challenge against Mr Gove's decision earlier this year, claiming it was "unlawful and irrational".

A decade before he murdered Mr Cameron, Noye stabbed a police officer to death but was cleared of his murder.

He was also jailed for his involvement in a gold bullion robbery in 1983.