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Sep 30, 2025
Dyon Smart appears in court on July 19, 2018. Pam Davies
www.thestar.com
By Jacques GallantCourts and Justice Reporter
''Warning: Contains graphic accounts of violence against children
A Brampton man has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder a five-year-old boy through a “barbarous” and “relentless” beating as revenge for the child’s mother rejecting him.
Furious that his ex-girlfriend rebuffed his advances and no longer wanted him living in her basement, Dyon Smart woke her young son in the middle of the night on July 19, 2018, preying on the child’s trust for a man he once saw as his “stepdad.”
Smart lured the boy, identified only as D.D. due to a publication ban, to a wooded area next to railway tracks where he repeatedly stomped on his face, head and torso and then tried to asphyxiate him with a cloth, leaving the boy for dead as Smart went back to the house to wash his bloodied clothes and go to sleep.''
Sep 30, 2025
Dyon Smart appears in court on July 19, 2018. Pam Davies

Brampton man gets life sentence for ‘barbarous’ attack on boy, 5, he tried to kill over mom’s rejection
The attack could fairly be described as “merciless, cruel, unfeeling, ruthless, vicious, and inhumane,” Superior Court Justice James Stribopoulos said.
''Warning: Contains graphic accounts of violence against children
A Brampton man has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to murder a five-year-old boy through a “barbarous” and “relentless” beating as revenge for the child’s mother rejecting him.
Furious that his ex-girlfriend rebuffed his advances and no longer wanted him living in her basement, Dyon Smart woke her young son in the middle of the night on July 19, 2018, preying on the child’s trust for a man he once saw as his “stepdad.”
Smart lured the boy, identified only as D.D. due to a publication ban, to a wooded area next to railway tracks where he repeatedly stomped on his face, head and torso and then tried to asphyxiate him with a cloth, leaving the boy for dead as Smart went back to the house to wash his bloodied clothes and go to sleep.''