Joel Smith

Who is Joel Smith?

Joel Smith is an English drug dealer and convicted murderer.

On 4 August 2006 he was convicted of murdering seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield and the man who was thought to be her father, Bertram Byfield, at a bedsit in Kensal Green, London, in September 2003.

Toni-Ann was shot in the back by Smith after he had shot Bertram Byfield, a rival drug dealer, so that she could not identify Mr. Byfield's killer. Smith believed that he had committed a perfect crime, leaving no DNA or forensic evidence at the scene. Following the murders Smith, who was known as Cocaine or Caine, fled London to Liverpool. While serving a prison sentence there he was turned in by former friends and acquaintances.