Gunman who disguised himself as Deliveroo rider jailed for 38 years after shooting eight-year-old girl

Thursday 15 January 2026 | 16:20, UK

A suspected hitman who disguised himself as a Deliveroo e-bike rider to carry out a series of targeted shootings in London has been sentenced to 38 years in prison.

Jazz Reid, 33, fired 11 bullets during three separate attacks, including one in which a girl celebrating her eighth birthday and her father were shot while sitting in a car with family members in Ladbroke Grove, northwest London, on 24 November 2024. The child was hit twice, while her 34-year-old father was shot five times. Both survived.

Prosecutors said the shootings were planned and executed with “precision.” The Old Bailey heard that Reid would travel to the targeted areas in a hired car before disguising himself with a Deliveroo backpack, takeaway box and e-bike.

The motive for the attacks remains unclear, but Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said they could have amounted to “contract killings.”

“You may have been carrying out shootings on behalf of others, perhaps relating to drug dealing or for some other form of financial gain,” the judge told Reid.

The first shooting took place on 9 October 2024, when Reid fired twice at a 27-year-old man at his home in Notting Hill, hitting him in the thigh and leaving him seriously injured. In a second incident, Reid fired four shots at a north London address linked to the same target as the third attack, though no one was injured on that occasion.

The final shooting occurred 13 days later, after the family had been celebrating the child’s birthday at a trampoline park. The father was shot in the back, chest, abdomen and pelvis, while his daughter was struck in the buttocks and foot.

Sentencing Reid to 38 years in jail, with at least two-thirds to be served in custody followed by a five-year extended licence, Judge Whitehouse said the entire family had been traumatised.

“No sentence I pass will remediate their suffering,” she said.

In a moving victim impact statement read to the court, the girl’s mother said the shooting had “shattered my family’s life.” She described suffering daily flashbacks and guilt for not being able to protect her daughter.

“Every time I see a Deliveroo bike I shudder, even though I know it’s not him,” she said.

She told the court her partner has been left with a bullet lodged in his shoulder, requires 24-hour care, has no feeling from the chest down and is unlikely to walk again. Her daughter, she said, has been deeply traumatised and withdrawn since the attack.

“She calls him the ‘Bad Man’ and wants him to be hurt two times like her,” the mother said, adding: “It makes me sick there’s still a bullet inside my baby girl.”

Dramatic body-worn camera footage showed armed police arresting Reid in a hard-stop manoeuvre. One of the two firearms used in the shootings was recovered from beneath a concrete slab outside his home in Uxbridge, west London, while the second was found inside a moped. The e-bike and Deliveroo disguise were later recovered from the flat of an associate in north Kensington.

Reid denied being the gunman, claiming he had been “set up” over a £10,000 debt and that the weapon had been planted. However, he was convicted of attempted murder, wounding with intent, and multiple firearms offences. The victims cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Richard Scott said the attacks were “a truly shocking series of crimes.”

“His actions were carefully planned and executed,” he said. “He intended to kill his targets but also seriously injured an innocent young girl who must now live with the trauma caused by his wicked action.