Woman bailed by Toni-Ann police

Toni-Ann was shot in the back

A 28-year-old woman who was arrested by police investigating the shootings of a seven-year-old girl and her father in a London bedsit has been released on bail.

Toni-Ann Byfield died after being shot in the back by her father's killer in Kensal Green on Sunday 14 September.

Scotland Yard said the woman, arrested in north London on Monday, had been bailed to return in October pending further inquiries.

A 23-year-old man arrested in connection with the shooting has been bailed until October, but remains in custody on suspicion of immigration offences.

Toni-Ann arrived in the UK from Jamaica in 2000 and had been staying with relatives in Birmingham and attending a school in the city.

A ward of court known to Birmingham Social Services, she had been staying with her father, Bertram, a convicted drug dealer, for the weekend.

Safety concerns

Bertram, a Briton raised in Jamaica, previously served nine years in a British prison for dealing crack cocaine. He survived a similar shooting last year.

A spokesman for Birmingham City Council said the court had granted Toni-Ann contact with her father in line with the child's wishes, and promised a thorough review of the management of her care.

The department had previously admitted that the girl was exposed to risks when she went to stay with her father.

Toni-Ann's mother, Rosalyn Christine Richard, made an emotional appeal for anyone with information about the crime to come forward.

"Whoever did this left my sons without a sister and a father," she said.

Police believe that Toni-Ann may have seen the killer.

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