A man accused of shooting an eight-year-old girl and her father while disguised as a Deliveroo rider has told jurors he was "set up".
The child was hit twice and the 34-year-old man was shot five times as they sat with other family members in a car in Ladbroke Grove, north-west London, on November 24 last year.
It was one of three shootings involving the use of two guns linked by forensic evidence to 33-year-old Jazz Reid, the Old Bailey has heard.
One of the weapons was recovered from underneath a concrete slab outside Reid's home following his arrest, jurors were told.
Giving evidence in his Old Bailey trial on Wednesday, Reid told jurors the gun was "planted" as part of a plot to set him up over a £10,000 drug debt.
He claimed to have handled a gun during an earlier incident in which he was himself attacked and shot.
Cross-examining, prosecutor Michael Goodwin KC said: "Are you surprised they didn't try and kill you?
"You told us you were 'set up' and the gun was planted because they wanted to get rid of you, teach you a lesson?"
Reid said he was shot, stabbed and attacked with a hammer.
Mr Goodwin said: "Apart from what you've told us, do you have any other proof that you have been set up?"
The defendant replied: "No."
Reid confirmed he was arrested for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs in 2012 and sent to prison the following year after a trial.
He said he became aware in 2021 that he was being pursued over a £10,000 drug debt.
Reid said that despite making money from drug dealing he also had a gambling habit, so by 2024 he still had not repaid the debt.
He added: "I didn't want to sell drugs no more and they ordered me to be shot."
Mr Goodwin suggested Reid had not mentioned the debt and drug dealing in his initial defence case statement because it was "not true".
The defendant denied it and insisted that around the time of the shootings he was at a family celebration and buying cannabis.
On his failure to explain the situation to police after his arrest, Mr Goodwin said: "It was your decision whether to tell police you had been set up, that it's not your gun, and that you are being framed by people out to get you, and that it's all to do with a drug debt in 2021 which is still affecting you in 2024.
"They could have helped you and investigated the case if they knew what happened."
Reid said he did not mention it because the police could not "guarantee" his safety or that of his family.
Previously, the court heard Reid allegedly used a hire car to drive from his home in Uxbridge to west London where he would change into a Deliveroo disguise and cycle on an e-bike to his intended targets.
In the first shooting on October 9 last year, Reid allegedly fired twice, hitting Ameile Buncombe in the thigh at the victim's home in Notting Hill.
On November 11 last year, it is alleged Reid fired four shots at an address in north London linked to the father, who was the subject of the third attack on November 24.
Reid has denied carrying out any of the shootings.
He has pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of the father and wounding the girl with intent.
He has also pleaded not guilty to wounding Mr Buncombe with intent on October 9 last year and a string of firearms offences relating to the incidents.
The Old Bailey trial continues.
