A REPORTED jail-break bid by road-rage killer Kenny Noye was foiled by eagle-eyed prison staff.

Noye, who once lived at at West Kingsdown, is said to have hatched a plan with a fellow inmate which involved smuggling mobile phones into prison in packets of breakfast cereal.

According to a report in a national newspaper, Noye, 58, wanted the phones to plan a break-out from the high security Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire.

However, any plans of a bid for freedom were thwarted when prison staff became suspicious.

A spokesman for the Prison Service said: “As a result of dynamic security and observant staff, Whitemoor Prison became suspicious that two prisoners were attempting to gain access to mobile phones.

“Appropriate action was taken. It is a tremendous tribute to the staff that this was all nipped in the bud so quickly.”

Noye was jailed for life in April 2000 for the stabbing of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron.

Stephen died after the two men became involved in an argument on a slip road of the M25 at Swanley in May 1996.

Noye was last in the news in November when his mother died and he was denied permission to attend her funeral on the grounds that he might use the opportunity to try and escape custody.

Noye previously served a 14-year-jail term for handling proceeds from the Brinks Mat bullion heist in the early 1980s.