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Article: The Noye Case: Capturing A Murderer - How underworld helped to corner fugitive Noye on Costa del Crime
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2000
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ON A BEAUTIFUL mid-August day in Barbate, a tuna fishing village
near Cadiz in southern Spain, Kenneth Noye and his girlfriend, Mina
Al Taiba, a striking woman of Lebanese-French extraction, were
enjoying their evening meal al fresco at the busy El Campero
restaurant.
Noye had just eaten a salad starter followed by red mullet and his
38- year-old companion another local fish, the dorada. As Noye was
contemplating his dessert, four undercover detectives dressed in
shorts and T-shirts rushed over, pinned him to the ground and snapped
on handcuffs. Britain's most wanted man had been nicked.
The Independent can now reveal how the arrest was made. It
followed a meticulous operation involving ...