TONI: MAN IS CHARGED.

A MAN was last night charged with the murder of seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield.

Joel Smith, 31, was also charged with murdering her 41-year-old guardian Bertram Byfield Bertram Byfield, born 1962, is a Jamaican murder victim and a former drug dealer.

He was shot, along with his seven-year-old daughter Toni-Ann Byfield, by rival drug dealer Joel Smith at a bedsit in Kensal Green, London, in September 2003. , a convicted drug dealer who the little girl believed was her father.

Smith, arrested on Merseyside this week, will appear before magistrates in London today but police refused to say where.

Byfield and Toni-Ann were gunned down in his North West London North West London could mean:

NW sector of the London postal districts
North West London Strategic Health Authority
North West London, an informal designation within London usually taken to include Brent, Harrow, the northern parts of Camden, Hillingdon and

bedsit bedsit or bedsitter
Noun

a furnished sitting room with a bed

Noun 1. bedsit - a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
bedsitter, bedsitting room in September 2003.

It is thought he was killed over a drug debt and Toni-Ann shot so she could not identify the hitman.

Another two men, aged 22 and 30, and a woman of 28 have been bailed pending further inquiries.

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	Oct 14, 2005
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