Sasha Johnson was one of the most public faces of the BLM movement when protests erupted in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.

A student of Ruskin College, she was involved in the Rhodes Must Fall protest, and with Black Lives Matter and Kill the Bill protests.

On 23 May 2021, Johnson was shot in the head at a party in the early hours.

Two days later, five men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, one of whom was later charged with conspiracy to murder while the others were released on bail.

A second man was charged on 12 June and two further men were charged on 17 June with conspiracy to murder.

The four men were scheduled to stand trial in March 2022 but the trial was abandoned in February 2022; the defendants were formally found not guilty when the prosecution offered no evidence.

On 25 May, police were reported as saying that Johnson "had been shot by a group of four black men" while attending a party.

Metropolitan Police Commander Alison Heydari said the men had "entered