Toni-Ann murder: Two released on bail

Two people arrested by detectives investigating the shooting of seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield and her father have been released on bail.

A 43-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were held in north west London and questioned at separate police stations in the capital.

They were bailed to return to police stations in north London on December 10. A 23-year-old man was arrested on September 15 and a 28-year-old woman on September 22. They are also on police bail. Toni-Ann was executed by being shot in the back after witnessing the gangland murder of her father, Tony Byfield, 41, at his bedsit in Harrow Road, Kensal Green, north west London, early on September 14.

She died a day before she was due to begin primary school.

Her Jamaican mother, Rosalyn Christine Richards, has made emotional appeals for help in solving her murder.

Toni-Ann was in the care of Birmingham City Council social services when she went to stay with her father, a convicted drug dealer.

The council has promised a thorough review of the management of her care.

She normally stayed with relatives in London during the week and often visited her father for weekends.

Mr Byfield, a Briton raised in Jamaica, served nine years in a British prison for dealing crack cocaine and survived a similar shooting a year ago.

According to post mortem tests he died after being shot twice and Toni-Ann was shot once in the back. Police believe she was fired on as she tried to run away because the killer feared she might provide identification.

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