Fake Deliveroo driver jailed for shooting girl, 8, and her father

A gunman who shot an eight-year-old girl and her father while pretending to be a Deliveroo driver in north-west London has been jailed for 38 years.

Jazz Reid, 33, 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. The girl had been celebrating her birthday.

Reid was found guilty of attempted murder of the father and wounding his daughter with intent at a trial in November.

Sentencing Reid, Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said “no sentence that I pass” would alleviate the family’s suffering, with the shooting leaving the father “unlikely to ever walk again” and his daughter with OCD.

Reid was also convicted at this trial of a further count of wounding with intent and a string of firearms offences related to two other shootings on 9 October and 11 November 2024.

He was also handed an extension of five years on licence.

The court previously heard how Reid would drive a hire car from his Uxbridge home to a flat on the Swinbrook Estate in north Kensington, change into his Deliveroo disguise – complete with a takeaway box – and cycle an e-bike to the location of his intended targets.

The court heard that in the first shooting on 9 October 2024, Reid fired twice, hitting a man in the thigh at his home in Notting Hill.

On 11 November 2024, he fired four shots at an address in north London linked to a 34-year-old man, who was the subject of the third attack 13 days later.

Pushing for a life sentence, prosecution barrister Michael Goodwin KC told the court Reid was a “danger to the public” and that his refusal to explain what happened and admit responsibility means “the danger of future offending is exacerbated”.

The prosecution also omitted to affiliate Reid with a criminal gang and applied for a restraining order on behalf of the victim’s family, which judge Sarah Whitehouse KC did not grant.

She added the lack of motive was of great concern and raised the possibility of “contract killings”, given there was no evidence Reid knew his victims, adding he might have carried out the shootings on behalf of others for reasons “relating to drug dealing or some other financial gain”.

In court the mother and partner of the young girl and father who were shot by Reid was visibly emotional as she read a statement.

She described having frequent flashbacks and said she relived that evening every day.

“I carry the guilt of not being able to protect my little girl from what happened to her, on a day we’d spent surrounded by friends and family celebrating her birthday,” she said.

“That day should’ve been about her, not what it turned into because of this man.

“The incident has completely turned my daughter’s life upside down. She is a shadow of the bubbly, bright, larger than life character she once was, and now rarely wants to go out and socialise while suffering daily trauma and questioning why it happened.

“My partner has gone from being a happy, active, social man to one who is unable to walk. The pain of seeing him like this is unbearable for us all.”

“Both of my daughters still cry when I open the window of my car,” she said, adding that her eight-year-old daughter suffers flashbacks and refers to Reid as “the bad man”, with the attack leaving the young girl “feeling completely out of control”.

“She is more anxious than an eight-year-old should be. It makes me sick there is still a bullet inside my baby girl.”

The court was told the three shootings involved the use of two guns, one of which, a 9mm self-loading pistol loaded with 17 rounds, was recovered from underneath a concrete slab outside Reid’s home in Uxbridge on the same day as his arrest on 26 November 2024.

Prosecuting barrister Michael Goodwin KC emphasised the gun police found was “loaded and ready to use.”

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

During his trial in November, Reid told jurors the gun was “planted” as part of a plot to set him up over a £10,000 drug debt.

Defending Reid, Claire Davies KC said neither a life nor extended sentence was appropriate.

She said Reid had suffered “significant trauma and instability” in his life, having been involved in the supply of drugs since he was nine years old.

In her sentencing remarks, Judge Whitehouse KC stated that Reid’s diagnosis of PTSD and social anxiety were mitigating factors she considered but concluded he was “a dangerous offender.”

Det Insp Richard Scott, who led the Met’s investigation, said: “This was a truly shocking series of crimes carried out by a man intent on committing murder.

“His actions were carefully planned and executed.

“He intended to kill his targets but also ended up seriously injuring an innocent young girl who must now live with the trauma caused by Reid’s wicked actions.”