A millionaire’s daughter has been warned that she could be jailed after being convicted of driving London looters on a late-night crime spree at the height of last summer’s riots.
Laura Johnson (20) drove the group through the city on August 8th last year. As they cruised around the capital, her passengers leapt from the car clad in hooded tops, bandanas and balaclavas to go looting.
The University of Exeter undergraduate, from Orpington, southeast London, was convicted yesterday of one count of burglary and one of handling stolen goods.
She was cleared by a jury of two other burglary charges and of handling stolen goods.
Judge Patricia Lees told her and a 17-year-old accomplice – who cannot be named because she is underage – that they would be sentenced on May 3rd.
The judge said: “You have both been convicted of serious offences . . . This spree of burglaries and handling stolen goods which you both were willing participants in will attract in my mind the likelihood of an immediate custodial sentence.” – (PA)