Sasha Johnson
(Picture: PA Wire)Four men accused over the shooting of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson will stand trial at the Old Bailey in March next year.
Prince Dixon, 25, Troy Reid, 19, and 18-years-old Cameron Deriggs and Devonte Brown are all charged with conspiracy to murder over the incident on May 23.
The mother-of-two was left in critical condition in hospital after she was shot in the head at a 30th birthday party in Peckham, south London.
At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday morning, Mr Justice Sweeney set the case down for a six-week trial to start on March 7 next year.
The four defendants, who are currently in custody, have not yet entered pleas to the charge, but their lawyers indicated at an earlier hearing that they will deny conspiracy to murder.
Ms Johnson was attending a silent disco in the garden of a house on Consort Road in Peckham when she was injured, just before 3am.
She is a founding member of the Taking The Initiative Party and has been a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement since last summer.
Mr Justice Sweeney confirmed he will oversee the trial. Defendants are due to appear in court again on November 5 for a plea hearing.
Dixon, of Gravesend in Kent, Reid and Brown, both from Southwark, and Deriggs, of Lewisham, are all accused of conspiracy to murder.
