Police found gun accused in shed

A man accused of shooting three people at random smashed through a glass door and a window to escape police.

When armed officers arrived at his home in Sussex Way, Holloway, north London, John Laidlaw, 24, fled and hid in a shed, a court heard.

He denies three counts of attempted murder and gun charges in a shooting spree in Islington last May.

Mr Laidlaw told the Old Bailey he had been at home all day watching television on the day of the shootings.

He is charged with shooting Abu Kamara, 44, and, thirty minutes later, Emma Sheridan, 26, and Evans Baptiste, 22.

Duncan Penny, prosecuting, said: "When you hear people at the front of the address your reaction is to crash your way through the glass door of the premises and dive your way out of a window that must have been about three feet off the ground.

"You were desperate to get away from them, weren't you?"

Mr Laidlaw denied this claiming he had been wrongly been accused of crimes in the past and wanted to avoid contact with police.

The trial continues.