A man said to be a Jamaican drug dealer, who evaded deportation from the United Kingdom for years, and who launched a frenzied hammer and knife attack on a young woman, was on Friday sentenced to life in prison.
According to UK media reports, the attack took place in front of the woman’s six-year-old daughter.
Forty-eight-year-old Lloyd Byfield reportedly armed himself with a claw hammer and a large red handled kitchen knife and smashed his way into the flat of 26-year-old Leighann Duffy in Walthamstow, east London, on September 1 last year.
It is said that Byfield was motivated by jealously as he had previously wished to pursue a relationship with Duffy.
After pleading guilty to murder, he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 26-and-a-half years by Judge Nicholas Cooke who told him he may never be released.
This is Byfield’s second offence.In 2005, he attacked another woman with a chisel and was jailed for burglary.
It is said that Byfield had previous convictions for dealing cannabis in Jamaica and continued to do so in the UK.
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