'Deliveroo' gunman guilty of attempted murder

Jazz Reid was found guilty of the shooting last November

A gunman has been found guilty of shooting an eight-year-old girl and her father in north-west London while disguised as a Deliveroo rider.

The Old Bailey trial heard Jazz Reid fired 11 shots, hitting the child twice and the 34-year-old man five times as they sat with other family members in a car in Ladbroke Grove on 24 November 2024.

On Thursday the jury found him guilty of attempted murder of the father and wounding the girl with intent.

The court had heard how Reid, 33, would drive a hire car to the area, change into his Deliveroo disguise - complete with a takeaway box - and cycle an e-bike to the location of his intended targets.

Reid was also convicted of wounding with intent on 9 October last year and of firearms offences relating to the incidents.

Jazz Reid had denied the shooting, saying the gun was "planted" to frame him

Shootings 'were planned'

During his trial he told jurors the gun was "planted" as part of a plot to set him up over a £10,000 drug debt.

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

Prosecutor Michael Goodwin KC had told jurors that each shooting was planned and executed with "precision", with Reid even switching his mobile phone and sim card to avoid detection.

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.

Self-loading pistol

Reid would drive hire cars from his home in Uxbridge and park near to the flat of an associate on the Swinbrook Estate in north Kensington, the court heard.

He used the Swinbrook Estate flat as a "cover location" where he could park his hire car without arousing suspicion.

He then collected the e-bike and Deliveroo disguise from where he stored them in the flat before cycling to the location of the attacks.

Mr Goodwin said: "He was disguised as a Deliveroo driver when he carried out the shootings. All three occasions involved a Deliveroo driver riding an e-bike."

Reid was driving a hire car when he was arrested near his home in Uxbridge on 26 November.

Mr Goodwin said: "Just outside the home, under a slab of concrete, officers found a 9mm self-loading pistol loaded with 17 live rounds."

Reid's DNA was found on the grip and muzzle of the pistol which was forensically linked to the third shooting.

A different gun was used in the first two shootings, with the defendant's partial DNA identified on casings at the second scene, the court heard.

Reid was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on 5 January.