A gunman who posed as a Deliveroo driver and shot an eight-year-old girl alongside her father in north-west London has been sentenced to 38 years in prison.
Jazz Reid, 34, discharged 11 rounds, striking the girl twice and the father five times while they were seated in a vehicle with other family members in Ladbroke Grove on November 24, 2024.
Reid was convicted of attempted murder concerning the father and of intentionally wounding his daughter during a trial in November.
When imposing the sentence, Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC remarked that “no sentence” could ease the family’s pain, noting that the shooting had left the father “unlikely to ever walk again,” while his daughter was grappling with OCD.
Additionally, Reid faced a conviction for another count of wounding with intent, along with multiple firearms offenses tied to separate shootings on October 9 and November 11, 2024.
He also received a five-year extension on his license.
The court had heard details of how Reid would travel from his home in Uxbridge to an associate’s flat at the Swinbrook Estate in north Kensington, where he would don his Deliveroo disguise—complete with a takeaway box—before cycling on an e-bike to target his victims.
On October 9, 2024, during the first shooting, Reid fired two shots, injuring a man in the thigh at his residence in Notting Hill.
Then, on November 11, 2024, he discharged four shots at a location in north London linked to another individual, who was subsequently attacked 13 days later.
The court was informed that the three shootings involved two different firearms, one of which was a 9mm self-loading pistol containing 17 rounds, found beneath a concrete slab outside Reid’s Uxbridge home on the day of his arrest on November 26, 2024.
Reid’s DNA was discovered on the grip and muzzle of this firearm, which was forensically connected to the third shooting.
During his trial in November, Reid claimed that the gun had been “planted” as part of a scheme to implicate him over a £10,000 drug debt.
Detective Inspector Richard Scott, who led the investigation for the Met, stated: “These crimes were shockingly egregious, perpetrated by a man determined to commit murder.”
