Another eyewitness in the Cameron murder, Alan Decabral,[41] declined protection[42] and was shot dead in his car in front of shoppers through his open window in Ashford, Kent, on 5 October 2000 (some 6 months after Noye’s conviction). Police sources were in no doubt that Decabral was killed by a professional hitman.[43][44] Police sources also stated that Decabral had been questioned about gun smuggling,[43][45] had extensive criminal contacts,[42] and his estranged wife later admitted that he had been a drug dealer who owed money to others.[46] Although Noye was questioned by the police, they concluded that the unsolved murder had no proven connection with Noye and did not charge him.[47][44]
Decabral had testified at the trial of Noye at the Old Bailey that he saw the fight between Noye and Cameron on the motorway slip road, and told the jury that he saw Noye “lunging forward” with a knife and stabbing Cameron, testimony that helped convict him.[44] The defence had attempted to discredit Decabral, saying he was an unreliable witness who created an “edifice of lies” in agreement with police.[44]
After Decabral’s murder Noye’s defence team, led by Michael Mansfield QC, continued to attempt to discredit him as a witness in order to win Noye’s release.[44] Before he died, Decabral had received death threats in relation to his involvement in the case against Noye and said that he had been ordered by unknown gangsters to “shut up or we will shut you up.”[48] He also said that someone had pushed three bullets through his letterbox with a warning.[48] After the trial he had said “I look over my shoulder every time I go into Sainsbury’s” (the murder took place in the car park of Sainsbury’s Bybrook Superstore).[48]
Police investigated whether Decabral was killed as part of a fight between rival biker gangs over drugs.[44] Witnesses to the murder in the retail park said they heard Decabral beg for his life before a young man in a woolly hat shot him
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