Cadiz - Mr Kenneth Noye, arrested in Spain in connection with the murder of "road rage" victim Stephen Cameron, faces a lengthy legal battle against extradition to Britain. The two-year manhunt for Mr Noye came to an end on Friday night when he was detained by Guardia Civil officers in the village of Vejer de la Frontera near Cadiz.
But another long fight to bring Mr Noye before the British courts is only just beginning as the man described as Britain's most wanted languishes in a Andalusian police cell. Once an extradition request has been lodged it is likely to be bitterly resisted by Mr Noye (51), of Sevenoaks, Kent, in a legal battle which will take months in the Madrid courts. He had been sought by murder squad detectives since Mr Cameron (21) was stabbed to death at a road junction on the M25 in Kent after an altercation with a motorist in May 1996.
According to Spain's national news agency EFE, Mr Noye spent the last two years living in a luxury apartment near Gibraltar in the outskirts of Tarifa, a popular windsurfing resort on Spain's Atlantic coast, while British police were attempting to trace him.