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The family of a Black Lives Matter activist who was shot in the head at a party have made a fresh appeal for justice after the court case against four men accused of the shooting collapsed.

Sasha Johnson’s mother said she is ‘a fighter’ who will ‘tell the story of who did this to her’.

Prince Dixon, 25, Troy Reid, 20, Cameron Deriggs, 19, and Devonte Brown, 19, all smiled as they were told their Old Bailey case was going to be quashed on Tuesday.

The mother-of-two, 27, dubbed the Black Panther of Oxford, was shot in the head at a 30th birthday party in Peckham, south London, early on Sunday May 23.

A second teenager has been charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of black equal rights activist Sasha Johnson, who remains in a critical condition in hospital, police said.

Police forensic officers search a street in Peckham, southeast London, close to where black equal rights activist and mother-of-three Sasha Johnson was shot in the head during the early hours of Sunday. Picture date: Monday May 24, 2021. PA Photo. Police THE DEVASTATED mother of a black equal rights activist and Oxford graduate, has appealed for witnesses to her shooting to come forward. Local campaigner Sasha Johnson, 27, remains in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the ...