'Deliveroo gunman' set up over debt, court told

Jazz Reid told the court that a gun found at his home had been planted there to set him up after failing to repay a £10k drug debt

A man accused of shooting an eight-year-old girl and her father while disguised as a Deliveroo rider has told jurors he was "set up".

The child was hit twice and the 34-year-old man five times as they sat with other family members in a car in Ladbroke Grove, north-west London, on 24 November last year. Neither victim can be identified for legal reasons.

Police recovered a gun from underneath a concrete slab outside Reid's home following his arrest, jurors were told.

Giving evidence in his Old Bailey trial, Jazz Reid, 33, told jurors the gun was "planted" as part of a plot to set him up over a £10k drug debt.

Drug debt

The shooting in Ladbroke Grove was one of three involving the use of two guns linked by forensic evidence to Mr Reid, the jury heard.

Mr Reid claimed to have handled a gun during an earlier incident in which he was himself attacked and shot.

The court heard he was arrested for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs in 2012 and sent to prison the following year after a trial.

Mr Reid said he became aware in 2021 that he was being pursued over a £10,000 drug debt.

Cross-examining for the prosecution Michael Goodwin KC said: "Apart from what you've told us, do you have any other proof that you have been set up?"

The defendant replied: "No."

Mr Goodwin suggested Mr Reid had not mentioned the debt and drug dealing in his initial defence case statement because it was "not true".

The defendant denied it and insisted that around the time of the shootings he was at a family celebration and buying cannabis.

Deliveroo disguise

Previously, the court heard Mr Reid allegedly used a hire car to drive from his home in Uxbridge to west London, changed into a Deliveroo disguise and cycled on an e-bike to his intended targets.

In the first shooting on 9 October last year, Mr Reid allegedly fired twice, hitting a woman in the thigh at her home in Notting Hill.

On 11 November last year, it is alleged he fired four shots at an address in north London linked to the father from the car - the subject of the third attack on 24 November.

Mr Reid has denied carrying out any of the shootings.

He has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of the man and wounding the girl with intent.

He has also pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent in Notting Hill on 9 October last year, and to a string of firearms offences relating to the incidents.

The Old Bailey trial continues.