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

Gunman who disguised himself as Deliveroo rider jailed for 38 years after shooting eight-year-old girl Jazz Reid, 33, carried out three targeted shootings prosecutors said were planned and executed with "precision". Image:Jazz Reid. Pic: Met Police Image:Gunman disguised himself as a Deliveroo rider. Pic: Met Police Image:Jazz Reid. Pic: Met Police Image:Arrested by armed police. Pic: Met Police Thursday 15 January 2026 15:41, UK A suspected hitman who disguised himself as a Deliveroo e-bike rider to shoot three people, including a girl celebrating her eighth birthday, has been jailed for 38 years. Jazz Reid, 33, fired 11 bullets, hitting the child twice and her 34-year-old father five times, as they sat with other family members in a car in Ladbroke Grove, northwest London, on 24 November last year. Both survived the attack, which was one of three targeted shootings prosecutors said were planned and executed with "precision". The Old Bailey heard drug dealer Reid would drive to the area in a hire car before disguising himself with a Deliveroo backpack, takeaway box and e-bike. The motive behind the shootings is not not known but Judge Sarah Whitehouse KC said they could have been planned "contract killings". She told Reid: "You may have been carrying out shootings on behalf of others, perhaps relating to drug dealing or for some other form of financial gain". In the first shooting on 9 October 2024 last year, he fired two shots, hitting Ameile Buncombe, 27, in the thigh at the victim's home in Notting Hill, leaving him seriously injured. No one was injured in the second attack, when Reid shot four times towards an address in north London linked to the same target as the third shooting, 13 days later. On this last occasion the father was shot in the back, chest, abdomen, and pelvis area, while his daughter was shot in her buttocks and foot after the family had been celebrating her birthday at a trampoline park. Sentencing Reid to 38 years in prison, of which he'll serve at least two thirds, with another five-year extended licence period, the judge said: "The entire family was traumatised by the attack. No sentence I pass will remediate their suffering." The mother of the girl and partner of the man who were shot said in an emotional victim impact statement she read to the court that the shooting had "shattered my family's life". She said she has "flashbacks every day" and carries "huge guilt for not protecting my girl from what happened". "Every time I see a Deliveroo bike I shudder, even though I know it's not him," she said. She said her partner has been left with a bullet lodged in his shoulder, needing 24-hour care, with no feeling from the chest down and unlikely to be able to ever walk again. "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...

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