Miss Cable also later denied suggestions that Mr C

Miss Cable also later denied suggestions that Mr Cameron was ill-tempered, was ‘having a go’ at Noye, and had followed him across the road.

But in her original police statement, read to the court, Miss Cable said: ‘The man walked round the front of the car and Stephen walked round towards him.

‘I noticed the man had a knife in his right hand.

When Stephen walked towards him the man lunged at Stephen with the knife.

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The court heard that Mr Cameron had tried kickboxing in the past, and had done security work as a bouncer.

But Miss Cable denied that she tried pulling her boyfriend away from Noye and that he had refused to get back in the van.

And she refuted claims that Mr Cameron had got angry with other motorists in the past, and once banged on the bonnet of an old lady’s car after becoming cross at her bad driving.

Mr Batten told the court that, at the couple’s engagement party, Mr Cameron had hammered on his next-door neighbour’s door in a temper after being caught urinating on the man’s hedge.

The jury was told Miss Cable went to stay with an aunt following the tragedy.

She denied telling the woman that Mr Cameron had made a rude gesture and that her boyfriend had ‘started it’.

However, she told the court that an allegation Noye tried to force open the driver’s door of the van was false.

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