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An 18-year-old man has appeared in court charged with conspiracy to murder over the shooting of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson.
The mother-of-two remains in hospital in a critical condition after the attack at a party in Peckham, southeast London, in the early hours of Sunday 23 May.
Cameron Deriggs, of Bromley Hill, Lewisham, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on Saturday morning after being charged on Friday night.
He was remanded into custody until his next court appearance at the Old Bailey on 25 June.
Prosecutor Carol Udenze said: This offence happened on May 23 at an address where a lady was shot in the head and another person was shot in the foot – this was at a house party.
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Pressure is intensifying on Boris Johnson to delay England’s planned release from lockdown restrictions on 21 June, after new figures showed rising infections and hospitalisations and scientists warned premature relaxation could lead to a dangerous spike in Covid-19.
Concerns were fuelled by the announcement of 4,182 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases in the UK the highest daily number since the end or March as well as new estimates that the all-important R rate of reproduction of the disease has now risen back above the crucial level of 1, meaning the virus is spreading exponentially.
Downing Street insists that it is too early to say whether the prime minister will be able to give the go-ahead on 14 June for the removal of most remaining curbs a week later, after he warned on Thursday that the country may have to wait longer.